What Is the Attention Economy? Capturing Human Focus
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What Is the Attention Economy? Capturing Human Focus

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Examine how the attention economy treats human focus as a valuable resource and the strategies platforms use.

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  1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

    Bail et al.'s bot-exposure study ('Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization') was published in PNAS in 2018, not 2020.

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    A 2020 study by Chris Bail and colleagues at Duke University, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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    A 2018 study by Chris Bail and colleagues at Duke University, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Why: Corrected publication year of the Bail et al. bot-exposure polarization study from 2020 to 2018 (its actual PNAS publication year). Verified fix is present in body text; no bibliography or FAQ mentions of this study existed to also correct.

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