The economics of attention : style and substance in the age of information / Richard A. Lanham.
The economics of attention : style and substance in the age of information / Richard A. Lanham.
The economics of attention : style and substance in the age of information / Richard A. Lanham.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.
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N303.4833/ 186
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English
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xiv, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Stuff and fluff -- Economists of attention -- What's next for text? -- An alphabet that thinks -- Style/substance matrix -- Barbie and the teacher of righteousness -- The audit of virtuality -- Revisionist thinking.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.
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Illinois
Date Published
c2006.
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"Richard A. Lanham here traces our epochal move from an economy of things and objects to an economy of attention. According to Lanham, the central commodity in our new age of information is not stuff but style, for style is what competes for our attention amid the din and deluge of new media. In such a world, intellectual property will become more...
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The economics of attention : style and substance in the age of information / Richard A. Lanham.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-293) and index.
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N303.4833/ 186
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74VKvmwg56ab
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0226468828 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226468822 (cloth : alk. paper)
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303.4833
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991021457789702626
