Economics of Attention - Style and Substance in the Age of Information

Zusammenfassung Traces our epochal move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. According to the author, the central commodity in our new age of information is not stuff but style, for style is what competes for our attention amidst the din and deluge of new media. He aims to map the frontier that information technologies have created.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A. Lanham, LANHAM RICHARD A, Lanham Richard A.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9780226468822
• ISBN: 978-0-226-46882-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects