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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tim Wu (Atlantic Books)Publisher: Atlantic Books Imprint: Atlantic Books Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.370kg ISBN: 9781782394853ISBN 10: 1782394850 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 07 September 2017 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this revelatory book, Tim Wu tells the story of how advertisers and programmers came to seize control of our eyes and minds. The Attention Merchants deserves everyone's attention. -- Nicholas Carr, author of THE SHALLOWS I couldn't put this fascinating book down. Gripping from page one with its insight, vivid writing, and panoramic sweep, [it] is also a book of urgent importance, revealing how our preeminent industries work to fleece our consciousness rather than help us cultivate it. -- Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER A profoundly important book... Attention itself has become the currency of the information age, and, as Wu meticulously and eloquently demonstrates, we allow it to be bought and sold at our peril. -- James Gleick, author of TIME TRAVEL: A HISTORY The question of how to get people to care about something important to you is central to religion, government, commerce, and the arts. For more than a century, America has experimented with buying and selling this attention, and Wu's history of that experiment is nothing less than a history of the human condition and its discontents. -- Cory Doctorow, BOING BOING Forget subliminal seduction: every day, we are openly bought and sold, as this provocative book shows. Kirkus [A] startling and sweeping examination of the increasingly ubiquitous commercial effort to capture and commodify our attention New Republic Illuminating New York Review of Books 'Wu is much better than most, partly because he is a sceptic, but mainly because he has narrative flair and an eye for the most telling examples.' The Sunday Times 'Wu writes about the uglier consequences of our great migration to the web with the bruised zeal of an ex-millenarian.' The Times Author Information"Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia University. He has been variously named as one of the leaders in science and technology, one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates and America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers, and in 2014 and 2015 he was named to the ""Politico 50."" He formerly wrote for Slate, winning the Lowell Thomas Gold medal for Travel Journalism, and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. In 2015, he was appointed to the Executive Staff of the Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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