Attention equals money — that this is a literal attention economy. People — it would be silly to think that these things don’t matter, because — if it is your industry — obviously if you don’t get any attention, you won’t be in business.
Attention equals money — this is a literal attention economy – Teaser News [ https://teaser.news.blog/2026/05/17/attention-equals-money-this-is-a-literal-attention-economy ]
[… but] there’s all of this context to explain it — and so hopefully it’s a book that gives some compassion to that [viewspective?]
“What the Internet Did to Girls – Freya India” (“Walk-Ins Welcome #388“) [ https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-388 ], ca. 2:12 – 2:48
See also my current ongoing series (roughly about the “business plan” of “social media”):
In other words: alternative is the new mainstream 😉
image source: Chris Cillizza video w/ Claire Atkinson “How the mainstream media screwed itself” (24:01) quote source ibid, (57:28 – 57:37)
… and I think that that’s, that’s a thing that is maybe it’s possible because of social media, … um, I think it’s also just the Internet more broadly, I mean I think podcasting is obviously a huge — an important — part of that too, … um, I mean I don’t know to what extent you feel like you kind of got to be large … like, because of social media or just it’s, or just the podcasting platforms that you used.
Joe Rogan Experience, Episode 2255: “Mark Zuckerberg” (46:55 – 47:20) [ https://joerogan.com ]
See also “Generally speaking, facts are independent of belief and of knowledge and opinion (and other basic literacy skills)” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/01/12/generally-speaking-facts-are-independent-of-belief-and-of-knowledge-and-opinion-and-other-basic-literacy-skills ]
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Shona Harding raises many interesting points about something she refers to as “social media” (but she doesn’t really clarify what is / isn’t social media) — cf. https://contextual.news.blog/2020/04/22/introduction-to-rational-media-content-vs-container
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