Index
Abilene Paradox, 48
Abilene, Texas, 69
ad blocking,
addiction,
viewing or not viewing technology as, 99
advertising, 28, 79
artificial intelligence,
digital,
ethics of digital advertising, 121
internet, 28
native advertising, 32
reassessment of nature and purpose,
search queries as signals of user intent, 122
Aesop,
akrasia (weakness of will), 64
Alexa, 117
Alexander the Great,
analytics systems, 32
Andreessen, Marc, 90
Anger and Forgiveness,
Apple Inc., 90
Arendt, Hannah, 71
attention, 10, 29
capacities for prediction, 69
competition over,
defining,
offsets, 116
spotlight of, 45
attention economy, , 58, 62
adversarial nature of technology, 97
as akin to DDoS attack, 88
conceptualizing,
elements in previous eras, 97
increasing intrusiveness, 90
listening devices, 92
media literacy, 101
monetization of users, 123
necessity of action, 98
predigital,
reassessment of advertising, 108
rewiring human relationship to, 89
technology and reasoning, 79
voluntary reform, 104
Attention Merchants, The, 104
Aurelius, Marcus, 117
Blue State Digital, 63
Bose, 23
boundaries,
Braudy, Leo, 59
Brave New World, 10
Brexit, 78
browser “cookie”,
Cecil the Lion, , 75
China, 52
choice architect, 21
competence, benefit of, 107
consent, 115
Coremetrics, 32
cybernetics, 48
Daily You, The, 31
DeepMind, 90
Deming, W. Edwards, 102
Designer’s Oath,
Diogenes, , , , 110
Discourse on Political Economy, A, 89
distraction, 10, 18, 45, 55, 65, 88
effect of,
epistemic,
existential, 56
functional,
IQ scores, 69
obscured “starlight”, 56
protection against, 116
technological, 44
Dugan, Regina, 92
Dylan, Bob, 50
education, 101
electoral college system, 78
engagement metrics, 32
English, 36
European Union, 115
Eyal, Nir, 34
Facebook, 36, 53, 57, 73, 92, 117
emotional contagion experiment,
Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment (The Atlantic), 63
Fadell, Tony, 102
Floridi, Luciano, 104
Franck, Georg, 46
freedom, 46
Frenzy of Renown, The, 59
Fricker, Miranda, 68
Hammerbacher, Jeff, 30
Harris, Tristan, 33
Hearphones, 23
Hegel, G. W. F., 99
Hewlett-Packard, 69
Hidden Persuaders, The, 110
Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products, 34
human-as-computer metaphor, 88
Idiocracy, 61
information,
abundance of,
Information Age, 12
information management
vs attention management, 115
information technologies, 93
assessing the design logic, 117
dependency, 19
effects of, 87
persuasive design of, 87,
infraethics, 104
injustice, epistemic, 68
Innis, Harold, 10
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), 32
Island, 99
“iTrainer”, , 22
Lakoff, George,
language, humanizing of, 112
leisure,
Lincoln, Abraham, 75
List of Cognitive Biases, 101
MacManus, Theodore, 109
Mayer, Milton, 94
McLuhan, Marshall,
Meditations, 117
military rule, approval of, 61
Mill, John Stuart, 46
mindfulness, 101
mob justice,
moral outrage,
personal anxiety, 76
Müller, Jan-Werner,
Nadir of Nothingness, the, 109
native advertisements, 32
Nielsen surveys, 31
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 10
Nussbaum, Martha, , 79
Packard, Vance, 110
Pask, Gordon, 48
perception
shift in due to overview effect,
pettiness,
narcissism, 59
Pieper, Joseph, 70
polarization, political
as erosion of shared identity, 64
Political Economy, 62
political information,
populism,
Postman, Neil,
Principles of Psychology, The, 64
propaganda, 52
“Regrets of the Dying”, 8
remnant inventory, 109
Republic, The, 76
rhetoric, 27
Roberts, Margaret, 52
Roethke, Theodore, 71
Rorty, James,
safe spaces, 2
self-regulation,
shared identity,
Simon, Herbert, 13
slot machine effect, 35
Sloterdijk, Peter, 21
Socrates, 76
Steinbeck, John, 102
technology
aligning design goals with human goals, 106
blame for effects of,
critiquing the comparison to drugs, 100
debating the benefits of,
reason for existence of, 7
Tesla, Nikola, 23
Theory of Moral Sentiments, The, 57
They Thought They Were Free, 94
Trump, Donald J., , 58
Turow, Joseph, 31
Tversky, Amos, 30
Twitch, 60
Understanding Media, 91
Universal Basic Income, 90
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 21, 47
Zuckerberg, Mark, 36
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