How the Digital Environment Is Reshaping Attention, Freedom and Consciousness
Between impulse and decision
A message, another post, a recommendation: digital services accompany us into even the smallest everyday decisions. Digital Zombification asks what happens to our attention when our environment becomes increasingly skilled at anticipating our reactions.
Sauro Tronconi explores the relationship between human habits and the design of digital systems. The perspective extends from an individual moment in front of a screen to the conditions that shape collective judgment.
Four perspectives on the digital environment
Attention and everyday life: how interruptions, habits and constant stimulation affect the continuity of thought.
Algorithms and design: how personalization and economic incentives influence the content we see and the choices that seem most immediate.
Society and public life: how group influence, polarization and an abundance of information interact with the conditions for democratic debate.
Possibilities for action: how protecting attention, designing technology and sustaining shared public spaces can open up greater room for choice.
Reading the research, examining the connections
The book brings psychological and neuroscientific research into dialogue with philosophical questions about freedom and consciousness. It distinguishes empirical findings from the limits of their explanatory power and the interpretations built around them.
Sources for the four parts and an annotated bibliography invite further reading. Here, “zombification” describes a functional process, not a clinical diagnosis.
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English eBook: Google Play Taiwan · Google Play Philippines.