The Attention Merchants
Ratings7
Average rating3.9
15
Added to list2020
Added to listAudiobook
Added to listNon Fiction
Added to listTodays Culture
Added to listPsychology
Reviewed
A very US-centric history of all the industries that make money off your attention. Propaganda, tabloids, radio plays, game shows, celebrity hype, reality TV, click bait, instagram influencers... you think you get what you came for, but truly you're always the product, and your attention is what will be monetized. The new technologies didn't advent that, they just accelerated a trend that's been around for more than a century.