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• 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
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - A Critique of the Attention Economy: Flourishing, Autonomy, and Corruption Nov 1, 2025
  Benjamin H. Schwartz A dissertation submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in... Read more
• 2025-12-01 - The NFC Research Archive - How Pickleball Explains American Culture Nov 1, 2025
  The aftermath of the pandemic has divided Americans into deeply oppositional camps. Some believe mRNA technology is a miracle, while others think it should be banned. Some believe the lab-leak... Read more