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Stand out of our light : freedom and resistance in the attention economy /

Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, James (Philosopher) (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Distraction (Psychology)
Attention.
Interest (Psychology)
Information technology > Social aspects.
Intérêt (Psychologie)
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social.
Attention
Information technology > Social aspects
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Philosophy for trolls
  • I. Distraction by design. The faulty GPS
  • The age of attention
  • Bring your own boundaries
  • Empires of the mind
  • II. Clicks against humanity. The citizen is the product
  • The spotlight
  • The starlight
  • The daylight
  • III. Freedom of attention. The ground of first struggle
  • The monster and the bank
  • Marginal people on marginal time
  • The brightest heaven of invention.