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World Communications Day
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- 1Pope’s communications day theme targets the attention economy●Pope’s communications day theme targets pitfalls of the ‘attention economy’
The Vatican has chosen the theme for the next World Day of Social Communications, focusing on the pitfalls of the ‘attention economy’ — the way digital platforms compete to capture and monetise human attention. The theme signals Pope Francis’s continued concern over how media manipulation, algorithms and constant notifications shape public discourse and erode genuine human connection, a subject he has repeatedly raised in recent years.