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
Other Authors: Williams, James, 1740-1780, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press [2018]
Edition:First edition
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645330606719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Philosophy for Trolls
  • Notes
  • I Distraction by Design
  • 2 The Faulty GPS
  • Notes
  • 3 The Age of Attention
  • Notes
  • 4 Bring your own Boundaries
  • Notes
  • 5 Empires of the Mind
  • Notes
  • II Clicks against Humanity
  • 6 The Citizen is the Product
  • Notes
  • 7 The Spotlight
  • Notes
  • 8 The Starlight
  • Notes
  • 9 The Daylight
  • Notes
  • III Freedom of Attention
  • 10 The Ground of First Struggle
  • Notes
  • 11 The Monster and the Bank
  • Notes
  • 12 Marginal People on Marginal Time
  • Notes
  • 13 The Brightest Heaven of Invention
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Further Reading
  • Index.