Collective political attention is structured by environmental agenda-setting mechanisms.

Evidence

We will understand nothing of the functioning of our individual attention if we do not re-situate it in the various attention regimes which structure our vital and communicational milieu. It is no good lamenting ‘public stupidity’, the ‘spinelessness of journalists’ or the ‘occult power of lobbyists’ – however real these may be – if we do not recognize the importance of those (invisible because environmental) factors that are attention regimes. From the moment our political life is condemned to pass through the mass media, our collective attention is inevitably structured by agenda-setting mechanisms governing the selection of themes serving as the attractors around which our daily conversations and social debates orbit. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 133

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bridges Frankfurt School media critique to contemporary agenda-setting theory and the platform attention economy — the stated reading goal. — connects to: Attention is a socially produced and politically governed resource, not merely a scarce one. — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 19; Attention has emerged as a site of political, economic, and moral struggle — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 10; Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 25 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Attention is a socially produced and politically governed resource, not merely a scarce one. #expands (0.78) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 19
• Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts #expands (0.74) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 25
• Attention has emerged as a site of political, economic, and moral struggle #expands (0.72) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 10
• Effective political action requires common opinions, affections, and interests #corroborates (0.72)