Why the news feels like it's overwhelming: How finite attention is manipulated to manipulate you

Podcast: Unspun · Amanda Sturgill

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

Everyone wants your attention. News organizations want it. Politicians want it. Social media platforms want it. And increasingly, AI systems stand between you and the information you’re looking for. But attention is finite. In this episode of UnSpun, Amanda Sturgill examines the attention economy and what decades of research can tell us about who gets our attention—and what they can do with it for good and for evil. LINKS Herb Simon's original paper Follow Dr. Sturg BlueSky -Prof. Amanda Sturgill (@DrSturg) Websites -Sturg says...