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57 The Attention Economy with Vincent F. Hendricks and Camilla Mehlsen

Reimagining the Internet

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Are You Thinking About How This Affects Youth?

Young people do grow up ina attention economy. They do see that when they they know, from a very young age than if you have an account on ticktok or instagram or yoare thet kind of social media platforms. You have quantitive measures to attention. And that do impact everybody, but especially young people. I mean, we do see that it does, that this whole system have has a negative impact onn the self esteem of young people. W so would imagine that it raises a lot of problems for youth, right? So i have a 12 year old son. He sees himself as a content creator, which i think is essentially what everyone wants to grow up

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