Henry Farrell's consideration of the attention economy & political science's failure to really see it, is an important read; he asks
'How might the attention economy remake the underlying structures of democracy? If there is a political scientist who predicted how Musk could effectively leverage his position to eliminate US-AID despite the legal and political barriers, I don’t know who she or he is'!
The political economy of attention *needs* our attention!
#attention
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-attention-economy-is-devouring
'How might the attention economy remake the underlying structures of democracy? If there is a political scientist who predicted how Musk could effectively leverage his position to eliminate US-AID despite the legal and political barriers, I don’t know who she or he is'!
The political economy of attention *needs* our attention!
#attention
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-attention-economy-is-devouring
The attention economy is devouring politics
Social scientists need to understand how. As do we all.Henry Farrell (Programmable Mutter)
