Overview
The story that reached you is not the whole world.
A feed can show real events and still leave you with a distorted picture. The most alarming story gets the attention. The quiet improvement often passes unseen. Over time, what we see most starts to feel like what matters most.
In Clickbaited, Shawn Taylor examines how human attention, media incentives, and digital design shape what feels true, urgent, and worth believing. Drawing on public data and published research, the book follows those pressures from the newsroom to the recommendation feed, and into trust, identity, and everyday habits.
Inside, you will find:
- Why accurate reports can still add up to a misleading sense of proportion
- How negativity, outrage, and watch-time metrics compete for the same limited attention
- What studies of real feed algorithms have found, including their published corrections
- How infinite scroll, notifications, and performance online affect focus and the people we become
- Practical changes for readers, newsrooms, platforms, and public institutions
The book keeps measured findings, interpretation, and proposals separate, and it shows the long-term data that headlines rarely do: longer lives, fewer children dying before age five, and a world that is far more connected than it was twenty years ago.
This is not a call to log off for good or to stop caring about bad news. It is a clear-eyed invitation to recover proportion, ask better questions, and help build an internet that rewards understanding.
From the author of The Trust Fabric.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798273059726
- ISBN-10: 9798273059726
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: November 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
- Page Count: 266
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