Message posted on 26/01/2023
Online seminar series on “Attending as practice in the attention economy”
Online seminar series on Attending as practice in the attention economy Within the ESDiT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) project, the working group on Attention Economy organizes an online seminar-series on Attending as practice in the attention economy. Aim: The online series aims to contribute, using philosophy and ethics, to constructively critique the attention economy (the tech industry's business model that treats human attention as a commodifiable resource). Speakers The first two sessions were a great success. * Peter Hershock on Intelligent Technology, the Attention Economy, and the Risks of Consciousness Hacking: A Buddhist Perspective, and * Silvia Caprioglio Panizza on Grounding ethics through attention: Murdoch, Weil, and Zen Buddhism The upcoming sessions will be: When Who Title Wed Feb 8th 11:00 AM-12:30 PM CET Soraj Hongladarom Toward an Ethics of Attention. Wed Mar 8th, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM CET Dan Nixon "Just Perceive: How Phenomenology and the Arts Can Guide Us in the Tech Era" Monday Apr 17th, 13-14:30 CEST Sebastian Watzl And Katharine Naomi Whitfield Browne 'The Commodification of Attention. An analysis and ethical assessment Tue May 9th, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM CET Tom Hannes The attention of ethics Mon Jun 19th, 13:00 -14:30 CEST Matthew Dennis Repurposing Persuasive Technologies for Digital Well-Being Interested in attending? Please write to Secretariat.P&E@tue.nl which of these sessions you want to attend. You will then receive a link to join the online seminar. We are looking forward discussing this with you. Gunter Bombaerts, Joel Anderson, Matthew Dennis, Lily Frank, Tom Hannes, Jeroen Hopster, Madelaine Ley, Lavinia Marin, Alessio Gerola and Andreas Spahn Background The attention economy refers to the tech industry's business model that treats human attention as a commodifiable resource. The libertarian critique of this model, dominant within tech and philosophical communities, claims that the persuasive technologies of the attention economy infringe on the individual user's autonomy and therefore the proposed solutions focus on safeguarding personal freedom through expanding individual control. While this push back is important, it uncritically accepts the framing of attention as a scarce commodity, giving rise to incomplete assessments of the moral significance of attention, and obscuring richer sets of ethical strategies to cope with the challenges of the attention economy. We step away from a negative analysis in terms of external distractions and aim for positive answers, by approaching attention as practice. The series engages with speakers from all kinds of backgrounds (philosophy on authors like Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, Simone Weil, Merleau-Ponty, Harry Frankfurt, or Buddhist ethics ; psychology; artificial intelligence; ). Questions that will be central in the online series: 1-What do attention and related concepts mean in the attention economy? 2-How is attention a basis for or related to morality? 3-How can attention (and related concepts) be built in the design of the attention economy in a humane way? To answer this last question, we think the philosophical debate should turn from a negative to a positive focus: * From What are the distractions? to How can wisdom practices, virtues, support a desirable form of attention?; * From I must take back control of my attention to How can we use attention for flourishing, wisdom, ?; * From reacting against promising (false?) free comfort to supporting acceptance of necessary effort; and * From increasing individual needs in the attention economy to support collective or intentional joint attention in the attention ecology. _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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