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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Lorenz, Taylor

Hardcover

Business GeneralTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 1982146869
ISBN13: 9781982146863
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Oct 3 2023
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.17
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet, revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off--terrific, as the New York Times calls it, Lorenz...is a knowledgeable, opinionated guide to the ways internet fame has become fame, full stop.

For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this phenomenon to be one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism.

By tracing how the internet has changed what we want and how we go about getting it, Lorenz unearths how social platforms' power users radically altered our expectations of content, connection, purchasing, and power. In this deeply reported, behind-the-scenes chronicle of how everyday people built careers and empires from their sheer talent and algorithmic luck (Sarah Frier, author of No Filter), Lorenz documents how moms who started blogging were among the first to monetize their personal brands online, how bored teens who began posting selfie videos reinvented fame as we know it, and how young creators on TikTok are leveraging opportunities to opt out of the traditional career pipeline. It's the real social history of the internet.

Emerging seemingly out of nowhere, these shifts in how we use the internet seem easy to dismiss as fads. However, these social and economic transformations have resulted in a digital dynamic so unappreciated and insurgent that it ultimately created new approaches to work, entertainment, fame, and ambition in the 21st century.

Extremely Online aims to tell a sociological story, not a psychological one, and in its breadth it demonstrates a new cultural logic emerging out of 21st-century media chaos (The New York Times). Lorenz reveals the inside, untold story of what we have done to the internet, and what it has done to us.

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