Algorithmic Attention Rents

Events

To inform our research process investigating algorithmic attention rents, UCL IIPP hosted an experts workshop in October 2022. Experts from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, Ofcom, and the Financial Conduct Authority joined academics to discuss IIPP’s latest digital economy research on ‘algorithmic rents’: how algorithms distribute benefits through allocating users’ attention. For more information click: here.

In the press

Tim O’Reilly, 2019. Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech. Quartz. July 17, 2019.
Tim O’Reilly, 2020. ‘The landlords of the Internet’. Danny In The Valley. Dec 4, 2020. Apple Podcasts

Research

Theorising and mapping modern economic rents

Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Ryan-Collins, Giorgos and Gouzoulis, 2020. Theorising and Mapping Modern Economic Rents, UCL IIPP Working paper 2020/13

Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, and Mariana Mazzucato, 2023. Algorithmic Rents in the Attention Economy : How digital platform algorithms shape user attention to allocate value, UCL IIPP Policy Paper 2023.
Ilan Strauss, Tim O’Reilly, and Mariana Mazzucato, 2023. Digital Market Power and Attention-Shaping Algorithms, UCL IIPP Working Paper 2023.
------ ‘Theorising and Mapping Modern Economic Rents’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Forthcoming 2023

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Contact

Ilan Strauss, Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).

Email: i.strauss@ucl.ac.uk