SoRA in the Press
Highlights
JAMA Pediatrics. Digital Media, Attention Fracking, and Youth Mental Health. March, 2026
The Telegraph. Can you stop scrolling for a whole minute? Put your attention span to the test. January, 2026.
The New York Times. The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie. January, 2026.
The Guardian. How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?. January, 2026.
Chicago Review of Books. The Friends of Attention Want YOU to Snap Out of It (While You Still Can!). January, 2026.
The Washington Post. These ‘attention activists’ are here to help you put down your phone. January, 2026.
The Paris Review. The Great Empty Cup of Attention. January, 2026.
The Spectator. How big tech companies steal your attention. January, 2026.
The Observer. The lost art of paying attention. January, 2026.
News & Magazines
BK Reader. This Brooklyn Nonprofit Uses Attention as a Political Tool. April, 2026.
USA Today. See inside a phone-free party in Brooklyn’s East Williamsburg. April, 2026
BusinessMirror. A small but growing movement wants you to put down your phone. April, 2026.
Sabah Daily. Life beyond screen: Attention activism urges putting phones down. April, 2026.
Curbed. 259 Things New Yorkers Should Know. April, 2026.
AP News. A small but Growing Movement Wants You to Put Down Your Phone. but First Read This. April, 2026.
Valor Economico. Activists call for renewed focus on ‘attention’. April 2026.
Taz. Immer mehr Menschen merken, dass etwas nicht stimmt. March, 2026.
Non Sprecare!. La Scuola dell’attenzione nata a New York per proteggere dal potere della tecnologia. March, 2026.
Veja. Os desconectados. March, 2026.
Estadão. Rede social não é descanso, é ceder autonomia ao algoritmo que molda nossa vida, diz escritor. March, 2026.
Intercept Brasil. Para resistir às big techs, você precisa aderir ao ativismo da atenção. March, 2026.
Ninja. Movimento internacional denuncia o impacto das big techs na mente humana para lucrar com a atenção. March, 2026.
New York Magazine. How to LEARN SOMETHING NEW. March, 2026.
La Repubblica. State Attenti. March, 2026.
Respekt. Technologické firmy těží naši pozornost jako ropu. Musíme se vzepřít. March, 2026.
Thinking Faith Network. Review: Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement. March, 2026.
Revista Salto. Quem controla sua atenção? O novo campo de batalha entre tecnologia, liberdade e consciência. March, 2026.
ISTOÉ. Debate em São Paulo discute o ‘fraturamento humano’ pelas big techs. March, 2026.
Nossa Causa. ONG traz ao Brasil referência mundial em economia da atenção. March, 2026.
Estado de Minas. Economia da atenção, guerra e o cansaço de existir. March, 2026.
BFC. Evento traz ao Brasil coautor de manifesto que denuncia captura da atenção pelas Big Techs. March, 2026.
Folha D.Sao Paulo. Celular é uma máquina de US$ 15 tri te espionando e isso é um risco para a liberdade, diz escritor. March, 2026.
El Confidencial. La gran guerra del siglo XXI ya ha estallado y este historiador de Princeton es el líder de la rebelión. February, 2026.
TeenVogue. College Students Not Reading Is an Issue, So Teachers Are Adjusting How Classes Look. January, 2026.
The Earthbound Report. Book review: Attensity, by The Friends of Attention. February, 2026.
InsideHook. What Is a Life of Nonstop Ads Doing to Our Minds?. February, 2026.
Read Your Color. Your RYC Release Report. January, 2026.
The Ink. WATCH: How to stop human fracking. January, 2026.
The Telegraph. The books to look forward to in 2026. January, 2026.
Chicago Review of Books. 12 Must-Read Books of January 2026. January, 2026.
Englewood Review of Books. New Book Releases – Week of 19 January 2026 – The Friends of Attention, more…. January, 2026.
Burned By Books. Attensity!. January, 2026.
Literary Hub. Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026. January, 2026.
Daily Kos. Nonfiction Views: Henry Ford, the Elon Musk of his day, plus the week's new nonfiction. January, 2026.
LearningWell. Warning: Your Attention is Being Fracked. December, 2025.
Tusk & Quill. My Week at the School of ‘Radical Attention’. August, 2025.
Daily Bulldog. An Interview With The Year 2026. December, 2025.
The New Yorker. Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?. April, 2025.
The Atlantic. A ‘radical’ approach to reclaiming your attention. December, 2024.
New York Review of Architecture. On the front lines of the attention liberation movement. June, 2024.
The New Yorker. The Battle for Attention. April, 2024.
The New York Times. Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back.November, 2023.
Princeton Alumni Weekly. Peter Schmidt ’20 Helped Launch a School to Cultivate Attention. November, 2023.
Podcasts & Radio
The Commonweal Podcast. Reclaiming Attention. April 2026.
CAN WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?. Is it time for a movement to reclaim attention? Discussing Attensity! with the Friends of Attention. March, 2026.
Rabiscos. A Guerra Pela Nossa atenção - com Peter Schmidt. March, 2026.
KJCC. This professor says Big Tech's exploitation of our attention is like tobacco companies in the '50s. February, 2026.
Intelligence Squared. The Trillion Dollar Battle For Your Attention, with Peter Schmidt and D.Graham Burnett. February, 2026.
Otherppl. Something Rotten at the Root. February, 2026.
LearningWell. Attention Activism with D. Graham Burnett. January, 2026.
The New Books Network. The Friends of Attention, “Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement” (Crown, 2026). January, 2026.
Factually! with Adam Conover. You Are Being Robbed of Your Attention with D.Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt. January, 2026.
Lapham Quarterly. Episode 21: The Friends of Attention. January, 2026.
Keen on America. Human Fracking: The $17 Trillion War for Your Attention. January, 2026.
Shaping Sciences. D.Graham Burnett on the Philosophy of Science, the Crisis of Human Fracking, and the Need for Attention Sanctuaries. November, 2025.
Hard Fork. A.I School is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education. September, 2025.
Stay Human from the Artificiality Institute. D.Graham Burnett: Attention and much more. February, 2025.
The Endangered Mind. How technology is hacking your brain with Princeton professor D.Graham Burnett. February, 2025.
The Ezra Klein Show. Your Mind is Being Fracked. May, 2024.
Television
Estadão. Peter Schmidt critica redes sociais: 'Único propósito é fazer dinheiro a partir de nossa atenção'. March, 2026.
CBN. Jornal da CBN.March, 2026.
Al Rojo Vivo. El lado oscuro de la tecnología: expertos explican por qué usuarios pasan horas viendo el celular. February, 2025.
Our Publications
Counterstream. Peace & Riot Issue 05: The AI Issue. April, 2026.
Diplomatique. Para resistir aos abusos das Big Techs, precisamos de “santuários da atenção”. March, 2026.
The Paris Review. Looking at Attention. February, 2026.
Los Angeles Times. Op-comic: Thinking in circles. February, 2026.
Porchlight. Attention Activism: A Rallying Cry to Fight the Commodification of Human Attention. February, 2026.
Psychology Today. How Therapists Can Heal Our Attention. January, 2026.
UnHerd. The illusions of diversity We are all slaves to moneyworld now. January, 2026.
The World in Time. Blessing the Sow.January, 2026.
Psychology Today. The Healing Power of Real Human Attention. January, 2026.
The Public Domain Review. Cybernetic Attention. January, 2026.
e-flux. Machinic Attention and Its Adversaries: A Manifesto. January, 2026.
Inside Higher Education. The Classroom as an Attention Sanctuary. January, 2026.
The Nation. Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Youth Loneliness Epidemic?. December, 2025.
The Princetonian.Turning the tide on “human fracking”. September, 2024.
The Nation. The Use of “Attention Capture” Technologies in Our Classrooms Has Created a Crisis. April, 2024.