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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Exposé of attention economy's insidious evolution.

If you've ever felt like your attention is being hijacked by every shiny ad or social media notification, "The Attention Merchants" by Tim Wu will resonate with you. Wu expertly marries historical context with modern-day implications, revealing just how deeply the battle for our attention is woven into the fabric of our lives. It's a wake-up call that will make you more mindful of where you direct your focus.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu
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ISBN: 9780804170048
Authors: Tim Wu
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2017-09-19
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, History, Business, Sociology, Economics, Science
Related Topics: Sociology, History, Politics, Technology, Politics, History, Economics, Sociology, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 4.07
(rated by 4489 readers)

Description

From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the term "net neutrality," a revelatory, ambitious, and urgent account of how the capture and resale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of messaging, advertising enticements, branding, sponsored social media, and other efforts to harvest our attention. Few moments or spaces of our day remain uncultivated by the "attention merchants," contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to the explosion of the mobile web; from AOL and the invention of email to the attention monopolies of Google and Facebook; from Ed Sullivan to celebrity power brands like Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump, the basic business model of "attention merchants" has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your consideration, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Wu describes the revolts that have risen against the relentless siege of our awareness, from the remote control to the creation of public broadcasting to Apple's
 

Exposé of attention economy's insidious evolution.

If you've ever felt like your attention is being hijacked by every shiny ad or social media notification, "The Attention Merchants" by Tim Wu will resonate with you. Wu expertly marries historical context with modern-day implications, revealing just how deeply the battle for our attention is woven into the fabric of our lives. It's a wake-up call that will make you more mindful of where you direct your focus.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.