JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cass Sunstein, Populism, Attention Economy
18 Aug 2020
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Stories (ideas) have the power to connect people. Populism: belief in the wisdom, or values, of the common people . Diversity/fragmentation: the juxtaposition old and creating something new out of them. Nostalgia: a desire to return to premodern values, for example wishing things would go back to how they used to. Paradox: willingness to accept paradox: merging of retro- beliefs and contemporary culture. Low barriers of entry- we all have the same access of technology. Group polarization- they way we talk to audiences has become fragmented also strengengthing ones belief. Rate of penetration- the amount of time it takes for a technology to be adopted by 50 million people. Radio-38 years telephone-20 years, televison-13 years internet-4 years. Twitter: 3 years ipad-2 years google+: 88 days. Birth and the evolution of the web internet developed as a military government project developed to create a communication network between military and academic researchers.
