You Are the Product
John Lanchester: It Zucks!, 17 August 2017
The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention Is Harvested and Sold
by Tim Wu.
Atlantic, 416 pp., £20, January 2017,978 1 78239 482 2 Show More
by Tim Wu.
Atlantic, 416 pp., £20, January 2017,
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
by Antonio García Martínez.
Ebury, 528 pp., £8.99, June 2017,978 1 78503 455 8 Show More
by Antonio García Martínez.
Ebury, 528 pp., £8.99, June 2017,
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us
by Jonathan Taplin.
Macmillan, 320 pp., £18.99, May 2017,978 1 5098 4769 3 Show More
by Jonathan Taplin.
Macmillan, 320 pp., £18.99, May 2017,
“... but on how to make the maximum amount of advertising revenue from you. In September 2016, Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, told a Financial Times conference that Facebook had ‘sucked up $27 million’ of the newspaper’s projected ad revenue that year. ‘They are taking all the money because they have algorithms we don’t ... ”