| International Standard Book Number |
9780063569805
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063569809
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
303.48/33
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| Personal Name |
Pakman, David, author.
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| Title Statement |
Pay attention : how the algorithms and media wars are suppressing truth and rewiring your brain / David Pakman.
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| Varying Form of Title |
How the algorithms and media wars are suppressing truth and rewiring your brain.
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| Edition Statement |
Hardcover First edition.
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| Publisher |
New York, NY : Harper, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
viii, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Summary, Etc. |
With a provocative follow up to his New York Times bestselling The Echo Machine, David Pakman offers a dire warning on the cultural and technological forces that are already melting our brains and transforming the pursuit of truth into an almost impossible, even quaint activity. Has the dystopian future of 1984 and Brave New World arrived? As Pakman forewarns in Pay Attention, we confront a very Orwellian threat of totalitarianism, as technological "advancements" have rendered us not just passive but willing participants in a Huxleyesque world where our humanity becomes swallowed by the Attention Economy. Drawing on his experience fighting in the digital trenches, Pakman illustrates how and why political news and commentary has become more fragmented, extreme, and divisive in a self-fulfilling, self-feeding media environment. His reports from the front line of the media and culture wars are beyond eye-opening.--Publisher's website.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mass media Political aspects United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Political culture United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Truthfulness and falsehood Political aspects United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government 21st century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works. lcgft.
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