Chapter 2
Patrick Burgoyne, “São Paulo: The City That Said No to Advertising,” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 18, 2007; www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-06-18/s-o-paulo-the-city-that-said-no-to-advertisingbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice, accessed December 26, 2014.
Paul Surgi Speck and Michael T. Elliott, “Predictors of Advertising Avoidance in Print and Broadcast Media,” Journal of Advertising 26, no. 3 (Autumn, 1997): 61–76, www.jstor.org/stable/4189042.
Vincent Bevins, “São Paulo Advertising Goes Underground,” Financial Times, September 6, 2010, www.ft.com/content/5ad26f14-b9e6-11df-8804-00144feabdc0.
Rex A. Hudson, ed. Brazil: A Country Study (Washington, DC: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1997), countrystudies.us/brazil/.
New York City Global Partners, Best Practice: Clean City Act, April 2011, www1.nyc.gov/assets/globalpartners/downloads/pdf/Sao%20Paulo_CleanCityAct.pdf.
Cord Jefferson, “A Happy, Flourishing City with No Advertising.” Good, December 25, 2011, www.good.is/articles/a-happy-flourishing-city-with-no-advertising.
Bob Garfield, “Clearing the Air,” NPR, On the Media, www.onthemedia.org/story/129390-clearing-the-air/, April 20, 2007.
Chapter 3
Kristen Conway-Gomez et al., “Population and Natural Resources Conceptual Framework: How Does Population Growth Affect the Availability of Resources?,” online module, ed. M. Solem et al., AAG Centre for Global Geography Education, globalgeography.aag.org/PopulationandNaturalResources1e/CF_PopNatRes_Jan10/CF_PopNatRes_Jan108.html, accessed February 17, 2015.
“Cutting Through Advertising Clutter,” CBS News, September 17, 2006, www.cbsnews.com/news/cutting-through-advertising-clutter/.
Louise Story, “Anywhere the Eye Can See, It’s Likely to See an Ad,” New York Times, January 15, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/business/media/15everywhere.html.
Oksana Tunikova, “How Many Ads Do You Actually See Daily?,” StopAd, April 6, 2018, www.stopad.io/blog/ads-seen-daily.
Ron Marshall, “How Many Ads Do You See in One Day?,” September 10, 2015, www.redcrowmarketing.com/2015/09/10/many-ads-see-one-day/.
Martin Hilbert and Priscila López, “The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information,” Science 332, no. 6025 (April 2011): 60–65, doi:10.1126/science.1200970.
Charles Arthur, “What’s a Zettabyte? By 2015, the Internet Will Know, Says Cisco,” Guardian, June 9, 2011, www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/jun/29/zettabyte-data-internet-cisco.
Todd Hoff, “How Big Is a Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, or a Yottabyte?,” High Scalability (blog), September 11, 2012, highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/11/how-big-is-a-petabyte-exabyte-zettabyte-or-a-yottabyte.html.
Adrian F. Ward et al., “Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity,” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 2, no. 2 (April 2017): doi:10.1086/691462.
Robinson Meyer, “Your Smartphone Reduces Your Brainpower, Even If It’s Just Sitting There,” Atlantic, August 2, 2017, www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/a-sitting-phone-gathers-brain-dross/535476/.
Ruth Alexander, “Are Search Engine Results Accurate?,” BBC News, February 20, 2012, www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17068044.
Chapter 4
Linda Stone, “Just Breathe: Building the Case for Email Apnea,” Huffington Post, February 8, 2008, www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-stone/just-breathe-building-the_b_85651.html.
“Three Technology Revolutions,” Pew Research Center, www.pewinternet.org/three-technology-revolutions/, accessed February 2014.
International Telecommunications Union Key Information and Communication Technology Data, 2005–2017, www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/facts/default.aspx.
“Relatives Gather from Across the Country to Stare into Screens Together,” Onion, December 25, 2013, www.theonion.com/articles/relatives-gather-from-across-the-country-to-stare,34842/.
Kirill Levchenko et al. “Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain,” in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP ’11 (Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society, 2011), doi:10.1109/SP.2011.24.
Paul Sawers, “Dropbox Opens Trading at $29, up 38% on IPO Price,” Venture Beat, March 23, 2018, www.venturebeat.com/2018/03/23/dropbox-opens-trading-at-29-up-38-on-ipo-price.
Chapter 5
Tim Goodman, “Tim Goodman’s TV Review: FX’s Lights Out Forgoes Boxing Cliches to Make for Compelling Drama,” Hollywood Reporter, January 9, 2011, www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/tim-goodmans-tv-review-fxs-69748.
Holt McCallany, interview by Jamie Mustard., December 13, 2018.
Maureen Ryan, “TV Peaks Again in 2016: Could It Hit 500 Shows in 2017?,” Variety, December 21, 2016, https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/peak-tv-2016-scripted-tv-programs-1201944237/.
Ray Richmond, “TCA: FX’s John Landgraf Not Discouraged by Lights Out, Terriers Ratings Woes,” Deadline Hollywood, January 15, 2011, www.deadline.com/2011/01/tca-fxs-john-landgraf-not-discouraged-by-lights-out-terriers-ratings-woes.
Sean O’Neal, “FX Cancels Lights Out,” AV Club, March 24, 2011, www.avclub.com/article/fx-cancels-emlights-outem-53619.
Ann Friedman, “Overwhelmed and Creeped Out,” New Yorker, February 26, 2013, www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/overwhelmed-and-creeped-out.
Chapter 6
Jennifer Liberto, “The Unemployed Psyche: Job Searching for So Long Crushed My Soul,” CNN Business, August 8, 2014, https://money.cnn.com/2014/08/05/news/economy/longterm-unemployed-depression/.
“Do Online Job Search Sites Work?,” CNBC, January 27, 2011, www.cnbc.com/id/41304850, accessed November 7, 2014.
Lauren Weber, “Your Résumé vs. Oblivion: Inundated Companies Resort to Software to Sift Job Applications for Right Skills,” Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204624204577178941034941330.html.
Kirsten Weir, “Alone in ‘the Hole’: Psychologists Probe the Mental Health Effects of Solitary Confinement,” Monitor on Psychology 43, no. 5 (2012): www.apa.org/monitor/2012/05/solitary.
Chapter 7
“UFC’s Chael Sonnen Hired by ESPN After Fox Firing,” AP News, November 11, 2014, www.apnews.com/310882d7f0624335a8d821198af449c6.
“Is Chael Sonnen MMA’s Muhammad Ali?,” Fox Sports, December 17, 2011, www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/is-chael-sonnen-mma-muhammad-ali-121711.
Chapter 8
“What to Do When There Are Too Many Product Choices on Store Shelves?” Consumer Reports, March 2014. www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/03/too-many-product-choices-in-supermarkets/index.htm.
Barry Schwartz, “The Paradox of Choice,” TEDGlobal Talk, July 2005, www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en.
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little, Brown, 2005), 142–43; see reference to Sheena S. Iyengar and Mark R. Lepper on page 69.
“When Choice Is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing?,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79, no. 6 (2000): 995–1006.
Alina Tugend, “Too Many Choices: A Problem That Can Paralyze,” New York Times, February 26, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/your-money/27shortcuts.html.
George Loewenstein, Daniel Read, and Roy F. Baumeister, eds., Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice (New York: Russell Sage, 2003).
John Tierney, “Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue?,” New York Times, August 17, 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html.
Chapter 9
John Locke, The Works of John Locke, vol. 9 (London: W. Otridge and Son, 1812).
Haig Kouyoumdjian, “Learning Through Visuals: Visual Imagery in the Classroom,” Psychology Today, July 20, 2012, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-psyched/201207/learning-through-visuals.
K. L. Alesandrini, “Pictures and Adult Learning,” Instructional Science 13, no. 1 (May 1984): 63–77, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00051841.
Shark Tank. episode 7.13, aired January 8, 2016, on ABC, https://vimeo.com/151256962.
Chapter 10
Mario Livio, The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 233.
Joanna E. Scheib, Steven W. Gangestad, and Randy Thornhill, “Facial Attractiveness, Symmetry, and Cues to Good Genes,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 266, no. 1431 (September 1999): 1913–17, doi:10.1098/rspb.1999.0866.
David I. Perrett et al., “Symmetry and Human Facial Attractiveness,” Evolution and Human Behavior 20, no. 5 (June 1999): 295–307, doi:10.1016/S1090-5138(99)00014-8.
Chapter 11
Vincent Scully, “Louis I. Kahn and the Ruins of Rome,” Engineering & Science 56, no. 2 (Winter 1993): 3–13, http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/621/2/Scully.pdf.
Christopher Hawthorne, “Louis Kahn: Bad Dad, Great Architect,” Slate, November 14, 2003. www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2003/11/hop_on_pop.html.
Inga Saffron, “Obituary: Anne Tyng, 91, Groundbreaking Architect,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 7, 2012, http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-07/news/30602107_1_anne-tyng-louis-i-kahn-architecture-school, accessed February 9, 2015.
Jayne Clark, “USA Today and Good Morning America’s 7 New Wonders of the World,” USA Today, December 22, 2006, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/news/2006-11-23-7-wonders-grand-canyon_x.htm.
Clive Wilkinson, interview by Jamie Mustard, October 12, 2018.
Chapter 12
“High Fashion Crime Scenes” (exhibition page), Wirtz Art, www.wirtzart.com/exhibition/high-fashion-crime-scenes/, accessed April 10, 2019.
Melanie Pullen, Violent Times (still-photography series, 2005–2009), www.melaniepullen.com/matter/.
Kramer Morgenthau, interview by Jamie Mustard, October 15, 2018.
Chapter 13
Philip Hale on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the Musical Record, Boston, June 1, 1899.
Ferdinand Praeger, “On the Fallacy of the Repetition of Parts in the Classical Form,” Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 9 (1882), 2.
Estelle Caswell, “Why We Really, Really, Really Like Repetition in Music,” Vox, October 13, 2017, www.vox.com/videos/2017/10/13/16469744/repetition-in-music.
Cam Lindsay, “The Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor Passionately Ranks the Band’s LPs,” Vice, January 24, 2019, www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kgzmk/rank-your-records-the-dandy-warhols-courtney-taylor-taylor.
Kory Grow, “Rage Against the Machine Look Back on 20 Years of ‘Killing in the Name,’” Spin, November 19, 2012, www.spin.com/articles/rage-against-the-machine-killing-in-the-name-anniversary-interview/.
“Quincy Jones on Battling Michael Jackson, Befriending Sinatra,” CBC News: The National, September 17, 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK6M5jPsolQ.
Ian K. Smith, “Top 20 Political Songs,” New Statesman, March 25, 2010, http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2010/03/top-20-political-songs, accessed January 8, 2015.
Adam Grant, “The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers,” TED Talk, April 26, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbCHn6gE3U.
Chapter 14
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963, transcript, National Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf.
Mark Donnelly, Britain in the Second World War (New York: Routledge, 1999), 15.
“To Be More Persuasive, Repeat Yourself,” Association for Psychological Science, April 20, 2016, www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/to-be-more-persuasive-repeat-yourself.html.
Stefan Schulz-Hardt, Annika Giersiepen, and Andreas Mojzisch (2016), Preference-Consistent Information Repetitions During Discussion: Do They Affect Subsequent Judgments and Decisions?,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 64 (January 2016): doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2016.01.009.
Chapter 16
D’Wayne Edwards, interview by Chris Young, January 2014.
Gary Warnett, “How Run-DMC Earned Their Adidas Stripes,” MR PORTER, May 2016, www.mrporter.com/daily/how-run-dmc-earned-their-adidas-stripes/939.
Erik Parker, “Hip-Hop Goes Commercial,” Village Voice, September 10, 2002, www.villagevoice.com/2002-09-10/news/hip-hop-goes-commercial/.
“About Us,” Wall Drug, http://www.walldrug.com/about-us.
D’Wayne Edwards, interview by Jamie Mustard, August 22, 2018.
Chapter 17
Eugene F. Provenzo Jr., “Friedrich Froebel’s Gifts: Connecting the Spiritual and Aesthetic to the Real World of Play and Learning,” American Journal of Play 2, no. 1 (Summer 2009): www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/2-1-article-friedrich-froebels-gifts.pdf.
Emily Deruy, “How to Predict a Baby’s First Word,” Atlantic, December 9, 2016, www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/12/how-to-predict-a-babys-first-word/510146/.
Mike Rowe, “Several Months Ago, I Took Umbrage,” Facebook, September 19, 2017, https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe/.
Travis Andrews, “Nordstrom Is Selling Jeans Caked in Fake Dirt for Hundreds of Dollars,” Washington Post, August 26, 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/26/nordstrom-is-selling-jeans-caked-in-fake-dirt-for-hundreds-of-dollars/.
Chapter 18
Al Ries, “Long Slogans Are Absolutely, Positively More Effective than Short Ones,” Ad Age, September 7, 2010, https://adage.com/article/al-ries/long-slogans-absolutely-positively-effective-short/145755/.
Chapter 20
Sergio Zyman, The End of Marketing as We Know It, 1st ed. (New York: HarperBusiness, 1999), 230.
Al Ries and Laura Ries, The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR (New York: HarperCollins, 2002).
Kevin J. Clancy and Randy L. Stone, “Don’t Blame the Metrics,” Harvard Business Review, June 2005, https://hbr.org/2005/06/dont-blame-the-metrics.
Larry Alton, “How Corporate Distrust Is Reshaping Advertising,” Adweek, August 17, 2017, www.adweek.com/digital/larry-alton-guest-post-how-corporate-distrust-is-reshaping-advertising/.
Phil Styrlund and Tom Hayes, Relevance: Matter More, ed. Marian Deegan (n.p.: Mary Mae and Sons, 2014).
Crazy People, directed by Tony Bill (1990; Paramount Pictures, 2004), DVD.
Chapter 21
Kate Freeman, “98% of Americans Distrust the Internet,” Mashable, July 19, 2012, http://mashable.com/2012/07/19/americans-distrust-the-internet/.
Gallup News Service, Gallup Poll Social Series: Governance, September, 2010, https://news.gallup.com/poll/143273/trust-mass-media-pdf.aspx.
Lymari Maralis, “U.S. Distrust in Media Hits New High,” Gallup, September 21, 2012, http://www.gallup.com/poll/157589/distrust-media-hits-new-high.aspx, accessed February 12, 2015.
GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications, AP-National Constitution Center Poll, August 2012, http://surveys.ap.org/data/GfK/AP-NCC%20Poll%20August%20GfK%202012%20Topline%20FINAL_1st%20release.pdf.
Anna-Louise Jackson, Anthony Feld, and Melinda Grenier, “Domino’s Brutally Honest Ads Offset Slow Consumer Spending,” Bloomberg Businessweek, October 17, 2011, www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-10-17/domino-s-brutally-honest-ads-offset-slowing-consumer-spending.
Adrian Campos, “Why Domino’s Spent Millions to Fix Its Pizza,” The Motley Fool, November 20, 2013, www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/20/why-dominos-spent-millions-to-fix-its-pizza.aspx.
Chapter 22
Ken Doctor, “The Newsonomics of the Millennial Moment,” Nieman, October 8, 2014, www.niemanlab.org/2014/10/the-newsonomics-of-the-millennial-moment/.
Marc Gurman, “A Look at ‘the Average’ iTunes Library,” 9to5Mac, January 4, 2011, http://9to5mac.com/2011/01/04/a-look-at-the-average-itunes-library/.
Kristen Purcell, Joanna Brenner, and Lee Rainie, “Search Engine Use 2012,” Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, March 9, 2012, http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/03/09/search-engine-use-2012/, accessed February 12, 2012.
Afterword
Chris Martins, “In Their Right Place: Ranking 10 Radiohead ‘Creep’ Covers,” Spin, September 22, 2012, www.spin.com/2012/09/radiohead-creep-covers-ranked-weezer-kelly-clarkson-korn.
John M. Bolland, “Hopelessness and Risk Behaviour Among Adolescents Living in High-Poverty Inner-City Neighbourhoods,” Journal of Adolescence 26, no. 2 (2003): 145–58.
Barry Schwartz, “The Paradox of Choice,” TEDGlobal Talk, July 2005, TED.com, www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en.
Sarah A. Stoddard et al., “Social Connections, Trajectories of Hopelessness, and Serious Violence in Impoverished Urban Youth,” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 40, no. 3 (March 2011): 278–95, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105375/.
Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto, “Unhappiness in America: Desperation in White Towns, Resilience and Diversity in the Cities,” Brookings, September 29, 2016, www.brookings.edu/research/unhappiness-in-america-desperation-in-white-towns-resilience-and-diversity-in-the-cities/.
Image Credits
Images from The Combat Soldiers (pages 112–117) by Melanie Pullen, reprinted with permission from Melanie Pullen.
Wall Drug sign at the Taj Mahal (page 164) from the Hustead Family Archive, reprinted with permission from Rick Hustead.
Sports Ball Artifacts (page 169) by Swanson Studio, reprinted with permission from Kevin Carroll.
Author photo by Connor Meyer.
All other art by Mark Slotemaker.