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Why Information Abundance Creates Attention Poverty
Open with Simon's core idea: more content raises the cost of being noticed while human attention stays fixed.
Janine L.
Janine L.
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Political Economy Research Fellow
Janine is a Political Economy Research Fellow at Pulp, studying how attention, media, and digital platforms shape political behavior. Her research examines the economic logic behind information and influence.
Janine L.
JanineL.@pulp.com
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The Perceptual Gate: Why Most Messages Never Enter the Mind
Introduce the "perceptual gate" threshold and show how rising information volume raises the minimum signal strength required to be consciously noticed.
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System 1 vs System 2: How Ads and Campaigns Route Around Deliberation
Explain how attention scarcity pushes people toward fast heuristic processing and why effective signals are built to ride that route.
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Pricing Attention: How Platforms Turn Time Into Revenue
Explain how platforms quantify, segment, and package attention into tradable products, creating uneven value per hour across formats and audiences.
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From Ads to Elections: Visibility Decay, Microtargeting, and Moral Emotion
Extend the framework into political campaigning: early-cycle persuasion, visibility decay on feeds, and moral-emotional language that accelerates sharing.
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Attention Economy in Advertisement and Political Campaigns
Attention in the digital public sphere becomes a concentrated, tradable currency controlled by firms and political actors through algorithmic amplification and audience segmentation.