Taylor Lorenz's new book, ‘Extremely Online,’ tells the story.
Taylor Lorenz knows a thing or two about being extremely online. Lorenz got her start as a blogger before becoming one of the best-known reporters at the Daily Beast and covering tech and internet culture for theThe book is a social history of social media. In it, Lorenz eloquently weaves a narrative about the rise of social platforms and alongside it, the rise of influencers.
[It’s important to recognize] the inherent disparities of the internet because it was built by these cisgender white men and pressure them to correct it because what my book shows is that users have a lot of power. It's really just as much users who determine how a platform evolves as it is the tech founders themselves. We're always in this push-pull with the people that make the products that we use and I think users should exert more pressure.
I think young people are so ignored and dismissed and maligned. It's horrible, especially for young women and especially young women of color. They're on the front lines of the internet, they are the ones that are seeing the worst of it. We really need to pay attention to these groups, because if we don't listen to them, these bad actors become emboldened and it ends up affecting everyone's experience.
I think this notion of “both-sides journalism,” where you give equal weight to two sides of an issue and don't really tell people what's the actual truth, or don't properly contextualize what's a harmful position on something, can be really dangerous. Look at how the media covers trans issues. Look at how the media covers COVID. Look at how the media covers police brutality.
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