The Role of Smartphones in Attention Economy — A concerning effect that may be tied with particular smartphone designs and other products is the idea of planned obsolescence, whether it be through hardware or software. According to a 2017 survey conducted by Counterpoint Research, people replace their smartphone every 21 months on average. An example of this effect…

The Role of Smartphones in Attention Economy — Having thought of attention as something limited during earlier centuries would have sounded foolish, but that is actually the reality of today. Thus, when grasping one’s attention it would make sense to keep that person enrolled in your flow of distributed information. …

The Role of Smartphones in Attention Economy — In advanced societies like those of the world we live in today, certain technologies and concepts become more refined. More so, does something such as the economy and balance of our communicative infrastructure, since nowadays almost anything has a price. …

The Role of Smartphones in Attention Economy — Like many other products, portable devices and smartphones have their own trends in design, and have certain fashionable features that change with time. …

The Role of Smartphones in Attention Economy — One of the main features that differs a smartphone from older generation communication devices is the plethora of components and abilities that are packed into this single device. Along with the standard calling and messaging capabilities, smartphones act in the same way as a computer does, giving the user the…