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arXiv:2410.17421 (cs)
[Submitted on 22 Oct 2024]

Title:From an attention economy to an ecology of attending. A manifesto

Authors:Gunter Bombaerts (1), Tom Hannes (1), Martin Adam (2), Alessandra Aloisi (3), Joel Anderson (4), Lawrence Berger (5), Stefano Davide Bettera (6), Enrico Campo (7), Laura Candiotto (8), Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (8), Yves Citton (9), Diego D’Angelo (10), Matthew Dennis (1), Nathalie Depraz (11), Peter Doran (12), Wolfgang Drechsler (13), Bill Duane (14), William Edelglass (15), Iris Eisenberger (16), Beverley Foulks McGuire (17), Antony Fredriksson (8), Karamjit S. Gill (18), Peter D. Hershock (19), Soraj Hongladarom (20), Beth Jacobs (21), Gábor Karsai (22), Thomas Lennerfors (23), Jeanne Lim (24), Chien-Te Lin (25), Mark Losoncz (26), David Loy (27), Lavinia Marin (28), Bence Péter Marosán (29), Chiara Mascarello (30), David McMahan (31), Jin Y. Park (32), Nina Petek (33), Anna Puzio (34), Katrien Schaubroek (35), Jens Schlieter (36), Brian Schroeder (37), Shobhit Shakya (13), Juewei Shi (38), Elizaveta Solomonova (39), Francesco Tormen (30), Jitendra Uttam (40), Marieke Van Vugt (41), Sebastjan Vörös (42), Maren Wehrle (43), Galit Wellner (44), Jason M. Wirth (45), Olaf Witkowski (46), Apiradee Wongkitrungrueng (47), Dale S. Wright (48), Yutong Zheng (49) ((1) Eindhoven University of Technology, (2) University of Victoria, (3) University of Oxford, (4) Utrecht University, (5) Marist College, (6) European Buddhist Union, (7) University of Milan, (8) University of Pardubice, (9) University of Paris 8 (Vincennes Saint Denis), (10) Wurzburg University, (11) University of Rouen, (12) Queens University Belfast, (13) Tallinn University of Technology, (14) Bill Duane and Associates, (15) Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, (16) University of Vienna, (17) University of North Carolina Wilmington, (18) University of Brighton, (19) East-West Center, (20) Chulalongkorn University, (21) independent writer, (22) Dharma Gate Buddhist College, (23) Uppsala University, (24) Being AI Corporation, (25) Tzu-Chi University, (26) University of Belgrade, (27) independent researcher, (28) TU Delft, (29) Budapest Business University, (30) Italian Buddhist Union Research Centre, (31) Franklin & Marshall College, (32) American University, (33) University of Ljubljana, (34) University of Twente, (35) University of Antwerp, (36) University of Bern, (37) Rochester Institute of Technology, (38) Nan Tien Institute, (39) McGill University, (40) Jawaharlal Nehru University, (41) University of Groningen, (42) University of Ljubljana, (43) Erasmus University Rotterdam, (44) Tel Aviv University, (45) Seattle University, (46) University of Tokyo, (47) Mahidol University, (48) Occidental College, (49) The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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Abstract:As the signatories of this manifesto, we denounce the attention economy as inhumane and a threat to our sociopolitical and ecological well-being. We endorse policymakers' efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy's technology, but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ecology of attending, that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. With 'embedded' we mean that attention is not a neutral, isolated mechanism but a meaning-engendering part of an 'ecology' of bodily, sociotechnical and moral frameworks. With 'focused on the alleviation of suffering' we explicitly move away from the (often implicit) conception of attention as a tool for gratifying desires.
Comments: 21 pages, 1 figure
Subjects: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
Cite as: arXiv:2410.17421 [cs.CY]
  (or arXiv:2410.17421v1 [cs.CY] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.17421

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From: Gunter Bombaerts [view email]
[v1] Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:51:10 UTC (551 KB)
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