The Sirens' Call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource / Chris Hayes
- Bib ID:
- 10107492
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hayes, Chris, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [S.l.] : Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2025
- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2025
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 704KB
- ISBN:
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- 1761386107
- 9781761386107
- Summary:
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From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all feel it -- the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, 'With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.' Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. The Sirens' Call is the big book we all need to wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.
- Notes:
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- Electronic book.
- General adult.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (cloudLibrary, viewed February 5, 2025)
- Subject:
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- Attention
- Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States
- Political culture -- United States
- Social change
- Anthropology
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Consumer Behavior
- Consumerism
- Cultural & media studies
- Cultural
- History of ideas
- HISTORY
- Interpersonal Relations
- Media studies
- Media Studies
- Popular Culture
- Popular culture
- PSYCHOLOGY
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Social attitudes
- Social History
- Social interaction
- Social Psychology
- Social Science - Sociology - General
- Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Social theory
- Social, group or collective psychology
- Sociology
- Soft skills & dealing with other people
- Genre/Form:
- Electronic books
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2025
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