191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)
Conspirituality1 Feb 2024

191: Extremely Online (w/Taylor Lorenz)

The internet has changed not only how we communicate with each other, but how we understand the world. All technologies reorient how we navigate the world. This one just feels, at times, so disorienting—especially if you are, like the three of us today, extremely online. That’s the title of Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz’s recent book. Taylor has been covering internet culture since starting in social media for the Daily Mail in 2011, which led to positions as a technology reporter for Business Insider, the Daily Beast, and the NY Times. In her insightful book, she details the history of internet culture, and she joins us today to discuss reporting in an age of conspiracy theories and online trolling, the challenges of covering long Covid in an age of overwhelming health misinformation, and what it’s like to be extremely online. Show Notes Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet Taylor Lorenz on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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