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Attention and Alienation : The International Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies. ICTの国際政治経済
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| 著者・編者 | Bhandari, Aarushi, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (Columbia U. Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2025.07 |
| ページ数 | 232 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜739-665＞ |
解説
Honorable Mention, 2026 Paul Sweezy Sociology Book Award, Marxist Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
The worldwide spread of the internet has revolutionized communication at a harrowing cost: the relentless commodification of attention. Algorithm-driven capitalism extracts profit from not only physical bodies but also the emotional and creative labor of internet users. This economic system alienates us from our inmost selves and gives us only a gnawing longing that cannot be satiated-a spiraling collective mental health crisis. The exchange is deeply unequal: we pay attention and receive alienation.
Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society. Ranging across levels, from international development policy to online social movements through individual internet users, she examines how these technologies have fostered a host of unequal exchanges. Pervasive inequalities-between richer and poorer countries, between progressive social movements and the reactions against them, and between technological elites and the online population-now reinforce one another, with far-reaching consequences. Along the way, Bhandari shares her own journey as a chronically online millennial woman growing up among the Kathmandu elite in a dominant-caste Hindu family during the Nepali Civil War. A bold and incisive critical analysis, Attention and Alienation also considers how to reclaim the potential of the internet and design new systems that prioritize collective well-being.
The worldwide spread of the internet has revolutionized communication at a harrowing cost: the relentless commodification of attention. Algorithm-driven capitalism extracts profit from not only physical bodies but also the emotional and creative labor of internet users. This economic system alienates us from our inmost selves and gives us only a gnawing longing that cannot be satiated-a spiraling collective mental health crisis. The exchange is deeply unequal: we pay attention and receive alienation.
Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society. Ranging across levels, from international development policy to online social movements through individual internet users, she examines how these technologies have fostered a host of unequal exchanges. Pervasive inequalities-between richer and poorer countries, between progressive social movements and the reactions against them, and between technological elites and the online population-now reinforce one another, with far-reaching consequences. Along the way, Bhandari shares her own journey as a chronically online millennial woman growing up among the Kathmandu elite in a dominant-caste Hindu family during the Nepali Civil War. A bold and incisive critical analysis, Attention and Alienation also considers how to reclaim the potential of the internet and design new systems that prioritize collective well-being.