Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society

Enrico Campo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-12640-1 (ISBN)

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In the context of debates surrounding the effects of new technologies on our mental faculties, particularly the attention span, this volume addresses the notion of a deterioration of attention, and the related ideas of cognitive overload, an inability to concentrate, and attention deficit disorder. Through a new conceptualization of attention based not on individualistic or universalistic approaches, but centered instead on the cultural and social variability of cognitive processes and the multiplicity of forces and environments that encourage, stimulate, and inhibit certain cognitive mechanisms, the author rejects the idea of a degradation or crisis of attention and proposes an alternative vision of the problem of attention in contemporary societies. Placing cultural conventions, social norms, and ecological environments at the forefront of our understanding of individual and collective attention, Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, psychology, and philosophy with interests in social theory, cognitive processes, and the criticisms often levelled at digital society and new technologies.

Enrico Campo is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy.

Introduction

1. Does Attention Exist?

2. In Search of an Elusive Object

3. Between the Mental and the Social

4. The Social Dimension

5. The Modern Ambivalence of the New

6. Social Frames and Systems of Relevance

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-12640-X / 103212640X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-12640-1 / 9781032126401
Zustand	Neuware