Attention problems exceed individual logging off into structural public issues

Evidence

IT’S TEMPTING TO conclude this book with a single recommendation about how to live. But I refuse to do that. That’s because the pitfalls of the attention economy can’t just be avoided by logging off and refusing the influence of persuasive design techniques; they also emerge at the intersection of issues of public space, environmental politics, class, and race. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 662

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s defensive reading purpose: this is Odell’s own text rebutting the ‘just turn it off’ misreading.