Stand out of our Light
Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
Abstract
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 title is also available as Open Access.
Keywords
technology and society; democracy; decision-makingISBN
9781108453004, 9781108429092, 9781108452991Publisher
Cambridge University PressPublication date and place
2018Series
Social Sciences,Classification
Political science and theory
Impact of science and technology on society
Ethics and moral philosophy
Social and political philosophy
Other technologies and applied sciences