Thanks very much to everybody who chimed in on this thread about attention --I wrote up some notes!
My conclusion from the discussion is that polisci should coordinate on an info board / faux feed design to study (probs v. heterogeneous effects on attention)
alexandercoppock.com/attention.pdf
alexandercoppock.com
Alex Coppock
So far persuasion work in polisci has mostly centered on
message -> opinion
(main result imo: messages have small fx in the right direction that don't differ too much by message or person or issue)
with less work on
message -> attention
need to figure out experimental paradigm for attention
Alex Coppock
What idiotic Democratic electeds do not grasp is that you do not capture attention with calm, inside-voice claims or strict message discipline. Both those things make you BORING and easy to ignore, especially in a fragmented media ecosystem
