by Tim Wu
2. Jenna Garrett, “Hipster Barbie Quits the Internet, Leaving Us Without a Hero,” Wired, November 4, 2015, http://www.wired.com/2015/11/socality-barbie-quits/.
3. “How to Grow Your Instagram,” The Miller Affect, http://themilleraffect.com/grow-your-instagram/.
4. Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Instagram Users Turn Flash into Cash, as Companies Eye New Advertising Market,” The Guardian, November 27, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/27/instagram-users-earn-income-advertising-brands.
5. James Franco, “The Meanings of the Selfie,” New York Times, December 26, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/arts/the-meanings-of-the-selfie.html?_r=0.
6. Laura Donovan, “This Instagram Star Is Calling B.S. on the Industry That Made Her Famous,” ATTN, November 2, 2015, http://www.attn.com/stories/3966/why-essena-oneill-quit-social-media.
7. Mahita Gajanan, “Young Women on Instagram and Self-esteem: ‘I Absolutely Feel Insecure,’ ” The Guardian, November 4, 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/04/instagram-young-women-self-esteem-essena-oneill.
CHAPTER 26: THE WEB HITS BOTTOM
1. Jonah Peretti, “Notes on Contagious Media,” in Structures of Participation in a Digital World, ed. Joe Karaganis (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), 160.
2. Ibid., 161.
3. Ben Cohen, “John Peretti Can Laugh at ‘The Wolf of BuzzFeed’ Because He Is Worth $200 Million,” The Daily Banter, April 4, 2014, http://thedailybanter.com/2014/04/jonah-peretti-can-laugh-at-the-wolf-of-buzzfeed-because-he-is-worth-200-million/.
4. Ben Cohen, “Buzz Feed Takes Journalism to New Low with Jurassic Park GIF Version of Egyptian Revolution,” The Daily Banter, July 9, 2013, http://thedailybanter.com/2013/07/buzz-feed-takes-journalism-to-new-low-with-jurassic-park-gif-version-of-egyptian-revolution/.
5. Columbia Journalism Review, Twitter, September 28, 2012, https://twitter.com/cjr/status/251772260455706624.
6. Mark Manson, “In the Future, Our Attention Will Be Sold,” December 4, 2014, http://markmanson.net/attention.
7. James Bennett, interview with Eric Schmidt, Washington Ideas Forum, October 1, 2010, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908/.
8. Gregor Aisch, Wilson Andrews, and Josh Keller, “The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites,” New York Times, October 1, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-of-mobile-ads.html?_r=0.
9. Marco Arment, “The Ethics of Modern Web Ad-blocking,” Marco.org, August 11, 2015, https://marco.org/2015/08/11/ad-blocking-ethics.
10. Ashlee Vance, “This Tech Bubble Is Different,” Bloomberg Businessweek, April 14, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/magazine/content/11_17/b4225060960537.htm.
11. James Williams, “Why It’s OK to Block Ads,” Practical Ethics (blog), University of Oxford, October 16, 2015, http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/.
12. Heidi Moore, “BuzzFeed Announces $19.3m in Funding As It Transforms Internet Advertising,” The Guardian, January 3, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/03/buzzfeed-new-funding-transforms-advertising.
13. Andrew Sullivan, “Guess Which Buzzfeed Piece Is an Ad,” The Dish (blog), February 21, 2013, http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/02/21/guess-which-buzzfeed-piece-is-an-ad/.
CHAPTER 27: A RETREAT AND A REVOLT
1. Tim Wu, “Netflix’s War on Mass Culture,” New Republic, December 4, 2013, https://newrepublic.com/article/115687/netflixs-war-mass-culture.
2. Netflix, Inc. Earnings Conference Call, interview with Reed Hastings, Thomson Reuters, January 22, 2014, http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/0x0x720548/ea656605-6780-4844-9114-3985aaabeaa4/NFLX-Transcript-2014-01-22T22_00.pdf.
3. “Netflix Declares Binge Watching Is the New Normal,” PRNewswire, December 13, 2013, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netflix-declares-binge-watching-is-the-new-normal-235713431.html.
4. Damon Lindelof, “Mourning TV,” New York Times, November 11, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/opinion/11lindelof.html?_r=0.
5. Andrew Romano, “Why You’re Addicted to TV,” Newsweek, May 15, 2013, http://www.newsweek.com/2013/05/15/why-youre-addicted-tv-237340.html.
CHAPTER 28: WHO’S BOSS HERE?
1. Matthew Panzarino, “Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy,” TechCrunch, June 2, 2015, http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/apples-tim-cook-delivers-blistering-speech-on-encryption-privacy/.
2. Ibid.
3. Tim Cook, “Apple’s Commitment to Your Privacy,” Apple, http://www.apple.com/privacy/.
4. Robin Anderson, Consumer Culture and TV Programming (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).
5. Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman, “Television Delivers People,” Persistence of Vision—Volume 1: Monitoring the Media (1973), video.
6. Farhad Manjoo, “What Apple’s Tim Cook Overlooked in His Defense of Privacy,” New York Times, June 10, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/technology/what-apples-tim-cook-overlooked-in-his-defense-of-privacy.html?_r=0.
7. Lev Grossman, “Inside Facebook’s Plan to Wire the World,” Time, December 15, 2014, http://time.com/facebook-world-plan/.
8. iOS Developer Library, “What’s New in Safari,” Apple, https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Articles/Safari_9.html [website is no longer active].
9. Joshua Benton, “A Blow for Mobile Advertising: The Next Version of Safari Will Let Users Block Ads on iPhones and iPads,” NiemanLab, June 10, 2015, http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/06/a-blow-for-mobile-advertising-the-next-version-of-safari-will-let-users-block-ads-on-iphones-and-ipads/.
10. Randall Rothenberg, “Ad Blocking: The Unnecessary Internet Apocalypse,” Ad Age, September 22, 2015, http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/ad-blocking-unnecessary-internet-apocalypse/300470/.
11. David Chavern, “Opinion: Ad Blocking Threatens Democracy,” Digiday, January 12, 2016, http://digiday.com/publishers/opinion-ad-blocking-disastrous-effect-healthy-democracy/.
12. Avram Piltch, “Why Using an Ad Blocker Is Stealing,” Tom’s Guide, May 22, 2015, http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ad-blocking-is-stealing,news-20962.html.
13. Marco Arment, “Introducing Peace, My Privacy-Focused iOS Ad Blocker,” Marco.org, September 16, 2015, https://marco.org/2015/09/16/peace-content-blocker.
14. James Williams, “Why It’s OK to Block Ads,” Practical Ethics (blog), University of Oxford, October 16, 2015, http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/.
15. Michael Wolff, “Ad Blockers Impair Digital Media,” USA Today, September 13, 2015, http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/wolff/2015/09/11/wolff-ad-blockers-impair-digital-media/72057926/.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia University, best known for coining the term “Net Neutrality.” In 2006, Scientific American named him one of fifty leaders in science and technology; in 2007, 01238 magazine listed him as one of Harvard’s 100 most influential graduates; in 2013, The National Law Journal included him in “America’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers”; and in 2014 and 2015, he was named to the “Politico 50.” He formerly wrote for Slate, where he won the Lowell Thomas gold medal for Travel Journalism, and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker.
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