The Attention Merchants: How Our Time and Attention Are Gathered and Sold

The Attention Merchants: How Our Time and Attention Are Gathered and SoldDESCRIPTION : Attention merchant: an industrial scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the 'attention