Digital Slot Machines: Social Media Platforms as Attentional Scaffolds.
In this paper we introduce the concept of attentional scaffolds and show the resemblance between social media platforms and slot machines, both functioning as hostile attentional scaffolds. The first section establishes the groundwork for the concept of attentional scaffolds and draws parallels to t...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 685 - 696 |
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