Science tells why we are forgetting government scandals: Human Attention Reduced Daily

It's just as you thought; the age of information has changed the overall space of attention.

In a recently published study by researchers at Denmark Technical University, they suggest that global collective attention is narrowing because of the amount of information being presented to the public.

Published Monday in the scientific paper “Nature Communications”, the study shows that people now have more things to pay attention to but often focus on things for a very short period of time, follows Periscope from The Guardian.

Researchers studied different types of media attention, collected from a series of sources, including [not only limited]: the last forty years in selling tickets to films; Google books for 100 years; and the most modern, Twitter data for 2013-2016; Google trends for 2010-2018; Reddit 2010-2018 and the attention given to Wikipedia from 2010 to 2017.

Researchers then created a mathematical model to predict three factors: how hot was that matter given attention, its profession over time in the public sphere and the desire for another issue, Dr. Philip Hovel, a professor of mathematics applied at College Cork University in Ireland.

empirical data found periods when these issues could catch the scattered attention and lose it at the same amazing speed, in addition to publishing cases in Wikipedia and the scientific newspaper. For example, a global Twitter trend would last 17,5 hours, compared with 2016, as well as on Twitter, where it lasted only 11.9 hours.

And it's growing in volume, which crushs our attention and the need for new things that make us quickly distracted,” said Philip Laurenz-Spreen, from the Max Planck Institute.