Dear Colleagues, Please see below the program for the seminar series on "Communication in the era of attention scarcity" organised by the American University of Paris during the fall semester 2014. For more information and for registering in any of the sessions, please see http://ac.aup.edu/croda/attentionscarcityseminar/index.htm * Monday 15.9 Waddick Doyle (AUP) - Inaugural lecture Semiotics and the Attention Economy * Monday 22.9 Jayson Harsin (Baruch College) - via videoconference Bringing together interdisciplinary strands in critical attention and cultural studies: affect, attention, power and circulation * Monday 29.9 Georgi Stojanov (AUP) Relation between Creativity and Attention * Monday 6.10 Georg Frank (Vienna university of technology) - The Economy of Attention in the Age of Neoliberalism Respondent: Ahmed Bounfour (Université Paris-Sud) * Monday 13.10 Julie Thomas (AUP Emerita) Attention and colour * Monday 20.10 Dominique Boullier (Sciences Po Paris, médialab) Designing envelopes for attention policies Respondent: Charles Talcot (AUP) * Monday 27.10 Yves Citton (Université de Grenoble) Attention Ecologies and Attentional Agency Respondent: Oliver Feltham (AUP) * Monday 3.11 Rachel Huber (AUP alumna) Digital movement and branded attention enclosures: Vogue Fashion Night Out Paris and the Nike FuelStation * Monday 17.11 Robert Payne (AUP) Divided attention and networked promiscuity Respondent: Geoff Gilbert (AUP) * Tuesday 2.12 Jean-Philippe Lachaux (INSERM, Lyon) The attentive brain Respondent: Maria Medved (AUP) Best regards, Claudia Roda -- Claudia Roda Professor of Computer Science American University of Paris 147, rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris +33(0)1.40.62.07.01 croda@aup.fr http://ac.aup.fr/roda