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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102: Conspirituality, Cancer, & Compassion (w/Gavin Ryan)

102: Conspirituality, Cancer, & Compassion (w/Gavin Ryan)

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Bonus Sample: Cash Grab

Bonus Sample: Cash Grab

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In this conversation, Beatrice Adler-Bolton—disability justice advocate and co-host of Death Panel Podcast—says something twice:"Under capitalism, you’re only entitled to the survival you can buy." He...

28 Apr 20221h 23min

Bonus Sample: Taking the Con Out of Spirituality

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100: State of Disinformation (w/Imran Ahmed)

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In July 2020, just as we were finding our sea legs with this podcast, Imran Ahmed joined to discuss the state of disinformation occurring around the world. As the founder of the UK’s Center for Counte...

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Bonus Sample: Zach Bush and the Holy Sardines

Bonus Sample: Zach Bush and the Holy Sardines

The Sermon of the Sardines is etched into our very souls. Picture the scene, as dreamboat doctor Zach Bush recounts his shimmering story of swimming off the coast of Tulum with thousands of tiny heroi...

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99: Conspirituality Goes to Therapy (w/Rachel Bernstein)

99: Conspirituality Goes to Therapy (w/Rachel Bernstein)

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