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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Episode: The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Description: Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at grabbing attention. But how real is the problem and in particular, does it impact our creativity? Carolyn Dicey Jennings is based at the University of California, Merced, and has just co-written a chapter called âAttention, Technology, and Creativityâ in a book called Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses published by Columbia UP (2023) Listen to her in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelanc...