Welcome to the Attention Wiki

This wiki is an effort to help develop the discipline of Attention Economics.

What we mean by attention economics is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the effects of information abundance in the face of limited attention. In essence, it is the study of how humans deal with the rapid growth of the amount of information they are exposed to at different levels of individual, groups, organizations, and society.

Although the word "economics" in "attention economics" welcomes this long existing and powerful discipline to the circle of disciplines that study the concept of attention, it does not mean that the tools of economic analysis will necessarily become the basis of this nascent discipline or dominate it in any way. Rather, it simply emphasizes the point that attention needs to be understood and treated as an important limited resource in our information-rich world.

For more information see The Philosophy Behind the Attention Wiki.

This wiki was founded in 2007.

Contents

The contents of this wiki can be browsed through the following links:

• People
• Concepts
• Books
• Articles
• Blogs
• Blog Posts
• Projects
• Tools & Technologies
• Knowledge Areas
• Conferences?
• Research Institutions
• Organizations

Other Sources

• The researchers involved in the AtGentive project? at the INSEAD Center for Advanced Learning Technologies (CALT) maintain a collection of resources in the AtGentive Cybrary. (example: Attention resources)
• The P2P Foundation wiki contains some good articles on attention economics. (example: Attention Economy)