Attention Complex - Media, Archeology, Method

Zusatztext "The Attention Complex certainly got my attention: it is a lively read rife with smart insights about the cultural logic of attention! as well as thoroughly convincing historicization of the 'invention' of ADHD." - Jasbir Puar! Associate Professor! Women's and Gender Studies! Rutgers University! USA! and author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Rogers is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at York University, Canada. Klappentext Over the past two decades in the United States, a profound reorientation of human attention has taken shape. This book addresses the recent cultural anxiety about attention as a way of negotiating a crisis of the self that is increasingly managed, mediated, and controlled by technologies. " The Attention Complex certainly got my attention: it is a lively read rife with smart insights about the cultural logic of attention, as well a thoroughly convincing historicization of the 'invention' of ADHD." - Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, USA, and author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Zusammenfassung Over the past two decades in the United States! a profound reorientation of human attention has taken shape. This book addresses the recent cultural anxiety about attention as a way of negotiating a crisis of the self that is increasingly managed! mediated! and controlled by technologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: ATTENTION SHIFTS 1. Behavior 2. Cognition 3. Complex PART II: ATTENTION DEFICITS 4. Resources 5. Game of Life

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• Authors: K Rogers, K. Rogers, Kenneth Rogers, Rogers K
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781137004123
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00412-3
• No. of pages: 259
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Media Studies, Sociology, Society, Cultural Studies, Society & social sciences, Communication, Social Sciences, Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, general, Media and Communication, Regional Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, anxiety;cognition;crisis;media;Orient;USA