Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech by McGuigan, Lee
Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech by McGuigan, Lee

Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before...
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Author: Lee McGuigan
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Language: English
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Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech by McGuigan, Lee

Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

$179.99 $100.00
Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech by McGuigan, Lee

Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

$179.99 $100.00
Author: Lee McGuigan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet.

Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs" these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us in this eye-opening book, digital advertising was well underway before the widespread use of the Internet. Explaining how marketers have brandished the tools of automation and management science to exploit new profit opportunities, Selling the American People traces data-driven surveillance all the way back to the 1950s, when the computerization of the advertising business began to blend science, technology, and calculative cultures in an ideology of optimization. With that ideology came adtech, a major infrastructure of digital capitalism.

To help make sense of today's attention merchants and choice architects, McGuigan explores a few key questions: How did technical experts working at the intersection of data processing and management sciences come to command the center of gravity in the advertising and media industries? How did their ambition to remake marketing through mathematical optimization shape and reflect developments in digital technology? In short, where did adtech come from, and how did data-driven marketing come to mediate the daily encounters of people, products, and public spheres? His answers show how the advertising industry's efforts to bend information technologies toward its dream of efficiency and rational management helped to make "surveillance capitalism" one of the defining experiences of public life.

Author: Lee McGuigan
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780262545440


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2023

About the Author
Lee McGuigan is Assistant Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an associate at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative. He is a coeditor of The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age.
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