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• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - The Attention Economy and Young People Dec 1, 2025
  Audio Recording by Written by Kyla Scanlon As read by George Hahn PS Kyla Scanlon is the author of In This Economy How Money Markets Really Work After you... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - How To Break Free From The Attention Economy Dec 1, 2025
  The attention economy seems to have run amok. Early on in the attention economy, media and other companies would vie for people’s attention so that they could advertise products or... Read more
• 2025-11-24 - The NFC Research Archive - The Impact of Advertising on Media Bias Nov 19, 2025
  THE IMPACT OF ADVERTISING ON MEDIA BIAS Preliminary 2011 Draft ESTHER GAL-OR TANSEV GEYLANI PINAR YILDIRIM* Esther Gal-Or: Glenn Stinson Chair in Competitiveness, Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of... Read more
• 2025-11-24 - The NFC Research Archive - Demand for Advertising and its Impact on Media Content Nov 19, 2025
  The project will address two questions: "How does advertising impact the development of media content?" and "What impact does the structure of the advertising market have on competition between content... Read more
• 2025-11-24 - The NFC Research Archive - What Does Independent Media Mean? Nov 19, 2025
  Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Today, on Truthout’s... Read more
• 2025-11-24 - The NFC Research Archive - Subscriptions and Donations: The Best Way Forward? Nov 19, 2025
  As publishers turn to subscription and donation models, Ben Barokas, Sourcepoint CEO, looks at the pros and cons. Ultimately, it’s about consumer trust, choice and mutual value, he says. With Apple’s... Read more
• 2025-11-24 - The NFC Research Archive - Why Independent Journalism Matters More Than Ever Nov 19, 2025
  The media landscape isn’t just shifting—it’s being rebuilt from the ground up. Independent journalists are stepping out from behind the walls of legacy newsrooms, trading corporate oversight for creative control,... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - The Tyranny of Convenience Nov 1, 2025
  Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver of human decisions, it may not offer the illicit thrill of Freud’s unconscious sexual... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - The Attention Economy and the Collapse of Cognitive Autonomy Nov 1, 2025
  “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” —William James In the contemporary digital landscape, human attention has emerged as the principal object of economic capture and commodification. Referred to as... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - The Pathologies of the Attention Economy Nov 1, 2025
  Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. I am fated, it seems, to periodically return to the subject of attention. I will at least try to... Read more