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Stand out of our light : freedom and resistance in the attention economy
- Title
- Stand out of our light : freedom and resistance in the attention economy / James Williams, University of Oxford.
- Author
- Williams, James (Philosopher)
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 134 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Former Google advertising executive, 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 plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this "attention economy," we need to recognise the fundamental impacts of our new information environment on our lives in order to take back control. Drawing on insights ranging from Diogenes to contemporary tech leaders, Williams's analysis is sure to provoke discussion and debate. Williams is the inaugural winner of the Nine Dots Prize, a new Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 -- II. Freedom of attention. The ground of first struggle -- The monster and the bank -- Marginal people on marginal time -- The brightest heaven of invention.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6169
- ISBN
- 9781108429092
- 1108429092
- 9781108452991
- 110845299X
- LCCN
- 2018009836
- 40028300825
- OCLC
- 1022084941
- Author
- Williams, James (Philosopher)
- Title
- Stand out of our light : freedom and resistance in the attention economy / James Williams, University of Oxford.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
- Other Form:
- Ebook version : 9781108569491
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028300825
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6169