Stand out of our Light Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

Are the systems of intelligent persuasion developed by today's tech giants a threat to human freedom? Drawing on insights from Ancient Greece through to Silicon Valley, Williams argues that liberating human attention may be the defining moral and political task of the Information Age. This titl...

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Main Author: Williams, James (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
Series:Social Sciences
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