Global ETD Search
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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"attention economy"”.
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The commercialisation of the celebrity brand and the exploitation thereof
… the mercantile element thereof, deserves greater attention. Celebrity's freely use their image to make money - these actions must be governed by an established body of law. The law must assist the celebrity in his commercial activities and must offer safety nets for when others unfairly exploit …
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Rhetoric and Time: Cognition, Culture, and Interaction
… of time-management in the digital culture of the attention economy.
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Soundscape and the Experience of Positive Silence
… simplicity, familiarity, safety and quality of attention are explored. In so doing, psychological theories of extended mind, construal level and psychological distance are considered in relation to the web of interactions between individual and soundscape. In all, these investigations revealed …
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Fandom & Social Media: SFF Authors & The Publishing Industry [Science Fiction & Fantasy]
… and reviewing culture, as well as the attention economy fostered by the Internet, one can track the development and evolution of modern [Science Fiction & Fantasy] SFF fiction in the anglophone publishing industry. This study considers the social media platforms most commonly used by …
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Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
… how the tradwife aesthetic flourishes in an attention economy shaped by disillusionment with neoliberal feminism, offering an escape through “white nostalgia” and bourgeois domestic fantasies that mask the failures of state policies and the neoliberal capitalist system. Rather than a genuine …
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The dynamics of attention in digital ecosystems
… of these platforms, as well as the broader attention economy, have enabled the proliferation of misinformation and undermined collective in- telligence. These situating factors motivate a guiding research question for the emerging field of platform design: how does attention operate in …
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The regulation of social media content personalisation: An international human rights perspective
This mini-thesis critically examines the extent to which existing international, regional, and domestic legal frameworks provide effective mechanisms for preventing social media content personalisation from violating Article 25(b) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Through …
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The Vital Role of Crowdfunding and Social Media in Establishing an Art Career: A ‘How To’
… and associated practices in the wake of the ‘attention economy’ and the turn towards the ‘attention-emotion economy’; in particular, how this impacts artists’ communications with and packaging of their creative works for their audiences. Selecting this particular research design helps to …
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Because Potato
<p>This thesis project explores the phenomenological qualities of the internet; asking, since the internet is difficult to grasp, what other modes of investigation might we have available? Using an investigative framework set forth by Jack Halberstam, this thesis declines to come to knowledge …