Push and Pull in “The Attention Economy”
(2007) Push and Pull in “The Attention Economy”. In Lussky, Joan, Eds. Proceedings 18th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Abstract
Pull technologies expect users to go to the source, often a static source such as a library catalog, to get the information they need. Push technologies deliver to users some individualized information, usually, that the user might want. Marketers and information-delivery services – the user may or may not have chosen to enroll -- have profiles that target some users to match with some information. The Attention Economy, a model that occurred about the same time as Push/Pull models, holds that attention to quickly shifting forces in affluent society is a commodity that is really more powerful than information control. User-generated information competes with standard sources and makes information-creators out of information-users in new ways. A number of questions are vital in the dilemma of how traditional library goals and resources, and the work of library professionals, can be merged with ad hoc and user-based information and new delivery structures and technologies.
| EPrint Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Keywords: | Attention economy, User-based information, Social issues |
| Subjects: | Sociology |
| ID Code: | 2063 |
| Deposited On: | 25 October 2007 |
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