Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

[...] there is much wasted watching by irrelevant viewers. Specification and fractionation of the audience leads to a form of concentrated viewing by the audience in which there is (from the point of view of advertisers) little wasted watching. Because that advertising time can be sold at a higher ate by the media, we can say that the audience organized in this manner watches harder and with more intensity and efficiency. In fact, because the value of the time goes up, necessary watching-time decreases, and surplus watching-time increases, thus leading to relative surplus value.

The other major way in which relative surplus value operates in the media is through the division of time. [...]

reminds me of a tweet by Ben Tarnoff (drawing on his & Moira's article about SV being unable to fix itself?) about FB needing to deepen extraction of value (since they cant spread beyond a certain point of penetration - limited by pop growth at their current scale)

for the division of time thing - think about how ads are shown every x tweets/posts/messages. the longer you scroll the more ads you see. they cram in a lot of diff ads rather than forcing you to linger on each (more profitable for them? cus more competition)

—p.100 Watching as Working: The Valorization of Audience Consciousness (91) by Sut Jhally 5 years, 8 months ago