James Wilson Williams
James Wilson Williams | |
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| Born | 1982 Cape Canaveral, Florida |
| Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
James Wilson Williams (born 1982) is an American writer and academic. He was the winner of the inaugural Nine Dots Prize, in 2017.[1][2] His first book, Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy, was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press.[3] In 2019, Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber selected the book as the Princeton Pre-read, the one book all incoming students were assigned to read before beginning their studies.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Oxford student and former Google employee wins inaugural $100,000 Nine Dots Prize". The Nine Dots Prize. The Kadas Prize Foundation. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ↑ "Inaugural $100,000 Nine Dots Prize winner chosen from more than 700 worldwide entries". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ↑ Williams, James (2018). Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Information Economy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108453004. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ↑ "The liberation of attention from digital distraction: The Princeton Pre-read". Retrieved 26 July 2020.
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