When Academic Research Meets The Attention Economy

When Academic Research Meets The Attention Economy

August 7, 2026 · 14 min · Episode 255

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of media trends on academic research and visibility in the attention economy.

On this episode, Health Affairs Publishing's Jeff Byers gets meta and invites Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, authors of the new book How The Internet Disrupted Science , onto the podcast to discuss how media trends have affected academic authors' research and get their work noticed and distributed in The Attention Economy. Both Kent and Joy are currently consultants. Kent was the co-founder of The Scholarly Kitchen and current author at The Geyser . Joy has worked at Silverchair and The American Medical Association. Sign up for Health Affairs' free newsletter to catch up on our new articles, podcasts, and events.

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