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The Attention Economy

Check out titles that explore how big tech and social media have impacted our world, economy, politics, relationships and minds.

Chicago Public Library

13 items

  • The Anxious Generation

    How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness

    Haidt, Jonathan,
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2024. — HQ792.U5H23 2024
  • The Chaos Machine

    the Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

    Fisher, Max,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, [2022] — HM742.F533 2022
  • The Death of Truth

    How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World--and What We Can Do About It

    Brill, Steven, 1950-
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — HM851.B7418 2024
  • The Extinction of Experience

    Being Human in a Disembodied World

    Rosen, Christine,
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] — T14.5.R665 2024
  • Extremely Online

    the Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

    Lorenz, Taylor,
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. — HM851.L669 2023
  • Filterworld

    How Algorithms Flattened Culture

    Chayka, Kyle,
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — HM621.C488 2024
  • Outrage Machine

    How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy--and What We Can Do About It

    Rose-Stockwell, Tobias,
    BookNew York : Legacy Lit, 2023. — HM742.R667 2023
  • Superbloom

    How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart /

    Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025] — HM851.C285 2025
  • Stolen Focus

    Why You Can't Pay Attention-and How to Think Deeply Again

    Hari, Johann,
    BookNew York : Crown,an Imprint of Random House, [2022] — BF321.H287 2021
  • Technofeudalism

    What Killed Capitalism

    Varoufakis, Yanis,
    Paperback[Place of publication not identified] : Melville House Publishing, [2024] — HM851.V37 2024
  • Tech Agnostic

    How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

    Epstein, Greg M.,
    BookCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024] — BL265.T4.E67 2024