The Attention Economy

Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard
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Vincent F. Hendricks: University of Copenhagen
Mads Vestergaard: University of Copenhagen

Chapter Chapter 1 in Reality Lost, 2019, pp 1-17 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract According to legend, Abraham Lincoln was willing to walk several miles in order to borrow a book while growing up in Indiana during the early nineteenth century. “My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read,” young Lincoln is reported to have said. Literature was scarce, difficult to access, and precious. Not only literature but information in general was hard to come by. Whether news from afar, new knowledge and insight, or simple entertainment, it usually took effort and came at considerable expense to get hold of information.

Keywords: Attention Economy; Simple Entertainment; Cambridge Analytica; Predatory Advertising; Data Brokers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0_1

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