Attention is the scarcest resource in politics and the least measured. Between what a person is served and what they later say sits a quieter layer: what actually held them. That layer is where my dissertation lives — attention as its own object, counted in focused seconds rather than clicks, and always read against the menu it was chosen from.
The same micro lens reads expression: in the anti-Americanism work, what citizens choose to say about another nation, decomposed into its dimensions. For most citizens, most of the time, the information environment is not one influence on how they see the other side — it is the encounter itself. Where selection pools, and whose attention pools there, is segregation in its most private form; how choices become structure is the level above.