You Are the Product
John Lanchester: It Zucks!, 17 August 2017
The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention Is Harvested and Sold
by Tim Wu.
Atlantic, 416 pp., £20, January 2017,978 1 78239 482 2 Show More
by Tim Wu.
Atlantic, 416 pp., £20, January 2017,
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
by Antonio García Martínez.
Ebury, 528 pp., £8.99, June 2017,978 1 78503 455 8 Show More
by Antonio García Martínez.
Ebury, 528 pp., £8.99, June 2017,
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us
by Jonathan Taplin.
Macmillan, 320 pp., £18.99, May 2017,978 1 5098 4769 3 Show More
by Jonathan Taplin.
Macmillan, 320 pp., £18.99, May 2017,
“... farm animals and have people vote on which is the more attractive … Let the hacking begin.As Tim Wu explains in his energetic and original new book The Attention Merchants, a ‘facebook’ in the sense Zuckerberg uses it here ‘traditionally referred to a physical booklet produced at American universities to promote socialisation in the way that ... ”