EUGLOH Open University

What is attention? What are its types and channels? Why is attention sometimes difficult to sustain, while at other times it is difficult to divert? How does attention change the subject and the object of attention? These and other questions will be explored in the next edition of our Open University series. In a culture where multitasking and split attention have become the norm, and at the same time we are flooded with ads, messages and various items of information on various platforms and diverse media all seeking our attention, it seems not only useful but crucial for our mental and social well-being to understand who can compete for our attention and how. Lecturers coming from diverse backgrounds ranging from media studies, psychiatry, psychology, visual studies and literary criticism to economics will discuss how attention to various phenomena reveals not only the deep structures of attention’s workings, but also the crucial function in the way attention builds our experience of the world around as well as inside of us. Number of ECTS: 3