Nine Dots Prize Book Launch: Stand Out of Our Light

Thu 31 May 2018

Alison Richard Building

The University of Cambridge and the Nine Dots Prize warmly invite you
to join us in celebrating the launch of a new book:

STAND OUT OF OUR LIGHT
FREEDOM AND RESISTANCE IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
by James Williams

WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL $100,000 NINE DOTS PRIZE

Thursday 31 May 2018, 5.15pm – 7pm
Venue: The Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT

James Williams (University of Oxford) will give a short talk and then be joined in discussion by Maria Farrell (Writer and Consultant) and John Naughton (Technology Correspondent, The Observer).

Topics under discussion will include:

• How the internet enabled the rise of the largest, most effective, and most centralised system of behavioural and attitudinal manipulation in human history.

• How we have sleepwalked into a world in which the heads of a small handful of tech companies are able to influence what billions of individuals think and do.

• How taking a wider view of the concept of ‘attention’ enables us to see the full set of implications the attention economy carries for human freedom.

• How the dynamics of the digital attention economy amplify outrage and mob rule, and may even play a role in the rise of populism.

This event is free and open to the public, and will conclude with a drinks reception.

Details here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27761

Cost: Free