Pause | What's happening with our attention (and what isn't)

Do you think you'll be able to listen to this Pause without interruptions ? Being constantly connected gives us the feeling of being able to do more things at once than ever before, but does that make us more productive? Or just more stressed?

To what extent are attention and multitasking compatible? How are mobile phones, social media, and digital life affecting our attention? How has being constantly connected changed our minds? Are we losing, or wasting, our attention ? These and other questions are answered in the new episode of Pausa , the El Confidencial podcast directed and presented by Marta García Aller , which you can listen to free and openly onIvoox , Spotify , and Apple Podcasts . Joining her is Amparo Lasen , a sociology professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and an expert in the study of the uses and presence of digital technologies.

"There are even texts by Benjamin Franklin in which he talked about making the most of time and not wasting it . These are discourses about being constantly productive and are inherent to society, no matter how much modernity has changed. They are ideals of capitalism that have always been there," Lasen explains.

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