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Toward a Grammar of Digital Attention

Dr. Yusuf Adeyemi, Theoretical Perspectives Quarterly (demonstration citation)

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Overview

Type
Theoretical Paper
Purpose
Prepare a literature review
Depth
comprehensive
Why reading this
Sample answer: building a conceptual vocabulary before drafting a literature review section.

Reading status

Completed
100% read · Session 3, full read

Contextual highlights

  • “Attention, on this account, is not spent but distributed across competing grammars of interruption.”
    Claim
    Section 2, p. 14

    Central conceptual move — reframes attention as distribution rather than depletion.

Completed analysis page: Argument structure

How the non-empirical case is built.

Argumentative moves

  • Move: Reframing

    Content: Rejects the 'depletion' metaphor for attention.

    Your assessment: Contestable

  • Move: Synthesis

    Content: Draws together linguistics and media theory vocabularies.

    Your assessment: Sound

Core claim

Digital attention should be modelled grammatically, not economically.

Concepts tracked

  • Grammar of interruption

    theory

    Coined in this paper; compare with the empirical sample's 'attention drift'.

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