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Online All the Time? Researchers Predicted It. | Full Report
Season 1
Episode 1
Social media’s power over consumers is not by chance, it is by design. Theories pioneered decades ago by B.F. Skinner lie at the root of today’s multi-trillion-dollar “attention economy."
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