The Attention Merchants : From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention is Harvested and Sold by Tim Wu Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman

the River Cottage A to Z is a celebration of the amazing spectrum of produce that surrounds us - all brought to life by Simon Wheeler's atmospheric photography

and for the next twenty years travelled the world's oceans before settling permanently in London as an author

revelations of social scandals and

Very few writers can write with such intense and yet precise emotional intelligence

The Attention Merchants : From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention is Harvested and Sold by Tim Wu Rutger BregmanAttention merchant: an industrial scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the 'attention merchants',