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You Are the Target : How Digital Systems Engineer Your Emotional Reactions and Influence What You Feel, Think, and Do
Overview
You are not just using digital systems.
You are being shaped by them.
You Are the Target reveals how modern digital platforms go far beyond attention capture. They actively participate in shaping emotional responses, guiding perception, and influencing behavior through continuous, data-driven optimization.
Every interaction with a screen is part of a feedback system. Every scroll, click, pause, and reaction generates behavioral signals that are analyzed, modeled, and used to refine what you see next.
This is not random. It is engineered.
Inside this book, you will discover:
- How algorithms learn to predict emotional reactions
- Why digital environments are optimized for emotional response, not just content
- How personalization functions as behavioral and emotional engineering
- Why anger, curiosity, and anxiety dominate online systems
- How perception is structured through sequencing and repetition
- How large-scale emotional feedback loops shape collective experience
It reveals something more subtle: emotion is increasingly structured by systems that learn from it.
The result is a world where what you feel is no longer only personal, but also informational.
And everything you feel becomes part of what the system learns next.
You are not outside the system.
You are the signal it is constantly reading.
This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798195361860
- ISBN-10: 9798195361860
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: May 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.17 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
- Page Count: 82
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