The Attention Merchants

Wu, T. (2016). The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2016

Link

https://archive.org/details/attentionmerchan0000wutimatched

Cited from

political_science

Cited by

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Primes

• Severed Accountability Via Unearned Revenue
  • The degradation is the well-known engagement pathology: maximizing time-on-site and outrage because that is what the revenue tap rewards.

    This sourceDocuments how advertiser-funded media optimize for attention and engagement (serving advertisers) rather than for the users who are the nominal audience.

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