# Event Details - **Event Name**: Aarushi Bhandari : Attention and Alienation - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 11 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 11 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Davidson Professor Aarushi Bhandari presents Attention and Alienation, The Political Economy of Information and Communication TechonologiesAbout this EventThe worldwide spread of the internet has revolutionized communication at a harrowing cost: the relentless commodification of attention. Algorithm-driven capitalism extracts profit from not only physical bodies but also the emotional and creative labor of internet users. This economic system alienates us from our inmost selves and gives us only a gnawing longing that cannot be satiated—a spiraling collective mental health crisis. The exchange is deeply unequal: we pay attention and receive alienation.Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society. Ranging across levels, from international development policy to online social movements through individual internet users, she examines how these technologies have fostered a host of unequal exchanges. Pervasive inequalities—between richer and poorer countries, between progressive social movements and the reactions against them, and between technological elites and the online population—now reinforce one another, with far-reaching consequences. Along the way, Bhandari shares her own journey as a chronically online millennial woman growing up among the Kathmandu elite in a dominant-caste Hindu family during the Nepali Civil War. A bold and incisive critical analysis, Attention and Alienation also considers how to reclaim the potential of the internet and design new systems that prioritize collective well-being.ABOUT THE AUTHORAarushi Bhandari is an assistant professor of sociology at Davidson College.Event Guidelines:This event will take place in person at Main Street Books.Address: 126 S Main St, Davidson, NCDoors open at 6:30 PMThis event is free to attend.RSVP is strongly encouraged.A book signing will follow the author talk.Books will be available for purchase at the event.Main Street Books is part of the Downtown Davidson Social District. Event guests are welcome to bring beverages purchased and contained in an official social district cup or can. 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