Attention, media, value and economics

First Monday

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 1997, Pages

  Aigrain, Philipe ^a  

^a Multimedia Systems Domain of the ESPRIT European RTD Programme in Information Technology   (Belgium)

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EID: 38949131212     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v2i9.549     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. This paper does not represent the official position of the European Commission or any other organisation.
2. Goldhaber is evidently closer to considering this layer, and it is what leads him to question the ability of classical concepts to handle the new situation, but he fails to address it properly. For instance, the use of the conference talk metaphor in "The Attention Economy and the Net" is misleading: a conference is also a medium, and of course all media have commonalties (like resting on the ability to attract attention as a source for value). But how value can emerge from the conference medium is by all ways very specific of its concrete process, and cannot extend to a different medium.
3. Philippe Aigrain and Philippe Lepain, 1995. "Computer-Assisted Perception: A Framework for Multimedia Interaction with Existing Media," http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_AMI/AIGRAIN/manifest.html
4. Cyberspace is inhabited by more than one medium. The Web is analysed in the following, but similar analysis can apply to e-mail, forums, etc.
5. Including the Web medium and "live" media. See Dominique Gonthier and Philippe Aigrain, 1997. "Gestion et négoce électronique de la propriété intellectuelle," to appear in Document Numérique, Volume 1.
6. For academics for instance. On the contrary for home users, the end-user cost is quite high, but its larger part goes to equipment and basic software suppliers and the rest to telecommunication companies and access service providers.
7. Zak Muscovitch, 1997. "Taxation of Internet Commerce, " to be published in First Monday.
8. See issues around the delivery of domain names or financial transactions, user privacy, etc.
9. Michael Goldhaber, 1997. "What's the Right Economy for Cyberspace?," First Monday, Volume 2, number 7, http://www.uic.edu/issues/ issue2_7/goldhaber/
10. Philippe Aigrain, 1996. "Macro-Economics and Time Issues in Consumer Access to Media and New Media," (November), available on request to: Philippe.Aigrain@dg3.cec.be
11. Ownership is not absolute, it is bounded by a number of rights, including the copyright, author rights, use rights, etc.
12. I am very much indebted to Bernard Stiegler's views on integration between perception and action. See Bernard Stiegler, 1994. La Technique et le Temps. Paris: Galilée/Cité des sciences et de l'industrie; translation will be published by Stanford University Press.
13. Literacy is the ability to construct new contents in a medium from the perception and assessment of existing contents in a medium. The pure ability to perceive contents does not constitute literacy by itself.