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trfetzer.comAttention Markets, Reward Curvature, and the Case for De-Weaponizing the Information SphereI wanted to share a longer reflection that connects a few threads I have been working on over the past years: narratives, validation, platform competition, and the political economy of information…

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Post coffee, Anirban Mitra (Kent) is presenting "From Ballots to Belonging: Minority Representation and Public Spending for Social Cohesion in English Local Governments". They show that minority representation increases public spending towards education, culture & transportation.

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On the second day, Jaime Perreira is presenting "Media Cross-Amplification and Public Opinion: Evidence from Television Coverage of Social Media", some compelling work that documents the news agenda setting power via social media.

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Giacomo De Luca (Edinburgh) is presenting "Serving Countries, Shaping Views: the Impact of Military Conscription on Attitude towards Immigrants". Using the roll back of military service post 1990s they show that compulsory military service worsens attitudes towards immigration.

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Maria Petrova is presenting a keynote "Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Undermined Social Cohesion in the US", this uses Facebook's end of data federation causing a shock in the cost of importing ones social graph into a different platform. This creates variation in...

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homophily that they explore. This breakdown led to the emergence of walled gardens. Back in 2009 I was writing about federated blogosphere in context of new OpenID standard allowing data federation. Since 2022 federation is "back" with users reclaiming digital self sovereignty.