Social participation makes contested attention truth more real over time.

Evidence

And here’s the fun part. YOU help uncover and realize this truth. The more people who join in this work, the more real this truth becomes. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 180

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• SEED: The claim that truth’s reality scales with participants implies a social-constructionist article angle: how does a truth become ‘real’ through collective commitment rather than evidence?

Related

• Attention activism can be screened by whether activity builds shared, owned connection (similarity 0.82)
• Attention extraction reaches people before they can reach their communities (similarity 0.80)
• The attention economy rests on a hidden false premise about attention. (similarity 0.79)
• Laypeople know as much about attention as scientists do (similarity 0.79)
• The attention activist network has remained small while its programs draw thousands (similarity 0.79)
• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality (similarity 0.79)
• Every major social movement began by demanding collective attention (similarity 0.78)
• Attention activism requires collectively building attention’s public meaning (similarity 0.78)
• Rebuilding social webs is the goal, not means, of Attention Activism (similarity 0.78)