book · Tim Wu · tradition:
attention-economy
A 150-year history of the industries that harvest and resell human attention, from penny papers to social feeds.
The book’s stance. Bears on engagement-gates-reward-truth-loss and self-capture (Ch 10). Supports the engagement-as-business-model claim; pressure-tests the “no villain” framing with a long record of deliberate design. Quote-backed supports/pressureTests edges pending extraction of the source PDF.
Availability. Cited by reference; no local copy held in the repo.