attention economy - politiglue https://www.politiglue.io Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:59:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 The Curve, the Clip, and the Click https://www.politiglue.io/the-curve-the-clip-and-the-click/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-curve-the-clip-and-the-click/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:45:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=501 March 2020 forced reality back onto the screen, but the feed still tried to turn it into content. The curve is not a metaphor, the clip is not leadership, and the click is not control. In a crisis measured in bodies and time, the real test is whether we can build an information culture that treats competence and restraint as more valuable than performance.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-curve-the-clip-and-the-click/feed/ 0 The Two-Minute Hate Scroll https://www.politiglue.io/the-two-minute-hate-scroll/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-two-minute-hate-scroll/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:09:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=491 February 2020 doesn’t feel heavy only because the news is heavy. It feels heavy because the interface is. The feed delivers politics as a reflex, preloading judgment, manufacturing urgency, and turning outrage into a daily ritual that fits neatly into spare moments. A small experiment, a two-minute pause, is a rebellion against a system that profits from keeping you reactive.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-two-minute-hate-scroll/feed/ 0 The Pause Before the Headline https://www.politiglue.io/the-pause-before-the-headline/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-pause-before-the-headline/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:40:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=759 In February 2020, politics still feels noisy but containable. Risk is theoretical, systems are abstract, and attention is treated as infinite, right up until the month becomes a threshold.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-pause-before-the-headline/feed/ 0 Notification Nation https://www.politiglue.io/notification-nation/ https://www.politiglue.io/notification-nation/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2020 01:24:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=421 In January 2020, politics doesn’t arrive as a newspaper or an evening broadcast. It arrives as a push alert. The attention economy has reshaped civic life into an endless stream of click-shaped urgency, rewarding visibility over integrity and reaction over reflection. The result isn’t just polarization. It’s a citizenry trained to live without “later.”

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/notification-nation/feed/ 0 The Year the Feed Learned Your Triggers https://www.politiglue.io/the-year-the-feed-learned-your-triggers/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-year-the-feed-learned-your-triggers/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2019 09:10:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/social-change-lessons-from-historical-movements/ December 2019 closes with impeachment, primaries, and a country that feels permanently on edge. But the deeper story isn’t just what happened. It’s how the feed trained us to consume politics in fragments, perform identity, and treat constant emergency as normal. Before 2020 arrives as a “reset,” it’s worth asking what the attention economy has already rewritten in us.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-year-the-feed-learned-your-triggers/feed/ 0 December 2019: Signals Without a Name https://www.politiglue.io/december-2019-signals-without-a-name/ https://www.politiglue.io/december-2019-signals-without-a-name/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=749 Year-end routines take over as institutions slow for the holidays. Small signals appear at the edges of attention, but there is no shared narrative yet, only information without urgency.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/december-2019-signals-without-a-name/feed/ 0 The Algorithm Is Running for Office https://www.politiglue.io/the-algorithm-is-running-for-office/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-algorithm-is-running-for-office/#respond Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:10:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/key-trends-shaping-future-political-landscapes/ American politics in 2019 is less a town hall and more a group chat with no moderators. Impeachment becomes content, campaigns become mood rings, and every institution gets filtered through the attention economy. The deeper crisis is not just what leaders do, but what the feed trains citizens to become.

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