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So, advertiser dollars in the "attention economy" have been redirected from newspapers to ad-tech. I wonder, who is a better steward of this money, and the con
by rland 8y ago
So, advertiser dollars in the "attention economy" have been redirected from newspapers to ad-tech.
I wonder, who is a better steward of this money, and the control it entails? Tech has been getting a bad rep recently; but there was a lot of crap in the print newspapers from the old days, too.
- rland 8y agoImmediately after writing that, I realized that "tech" is kind of a bad label for our Googles and Facebooks. "Attention companies" is perhaps a more suitable term, because attention is the product they're selling.
- dredmorbius 8y ago"Information technoloy" is largely media. Media are information technology. Google and Facebook are media companies.