Kate Hayles' "Hyper and Deep Attention"
Saw some interesting ideas and discussion on the IMD wiki about our use of Backchannel in various ZML events and classes and reminded me of a recent publication on this topic by UCLA professor Kate Hayles. She references IMD's backchannel efforts. The paper is called "Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes" and is online here.
Also just discovered some related (but kind of dense) notes on a "conversation" that Kate and I gave for HASTAC a while ago that Cathy Davidson has posted here.