Designing Envelopes for Attention Policies

Dominique Boullier (1, 2)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Attention regimes are plural and include : loyalty, alertness, projection and immersion. Attention policies become a critical stake for the public sphere. The design of media architectures should be understood as the design of envelopes so that the public can inhabit collective states of minds in a livable way.

Keywords: attention economy; Loyalty; Alert; Immersion; Immunity; Régime of attention

Domains: Political science; Sociology

Dominique Boullier. Designing Envelopes for Attention Policies. Michael W. Doyle; Claudia Roda. Communication in an Era of Attention Scarcity, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.63 - 73, 2019, 9783030209179. ⟨hal-02364808⟩