About the project
Threats to good attention are faced both by many individuals as well as by society as a whole. But exactly which societal risks are posed by attention manipulation and the social norms governing attentions? What ethical guidelines can be developed to overcome them?
Goals
The project "Responding ethically to the attention crisis" (Salient Solutions) applies ethical and philosophical tools to the threats and societal problems that arise in the context of the novel attention economy and new politics of attention – especially those prominent at a time of social media and mass information. Salient Solutions will help understand these threats and develop ethically acceptable ways of dealing with them. It connects the study of the mind and human interaction with the fields of ethics, economics, democratic theory, and international relations.
We aim to develop an analytical framework for attention norms that can serve as input for policy making regarding online advertisement, the public health sector, and for solving collective action problems.
Subprojects
- Subproject 1: Attention Policies
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Subproject 2: The Ethics of Nudging, Attention Manipulation, and the Commercialization of Attention
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Subproject 3: Salience and attention in collective action
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Subproject 4: Social Attention in Digital Communities
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