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Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
James Williams, Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Adam Alter, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Mark Andrejevic, Automated Media
Brian McCullough, How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

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