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

Taylor Lorenz

eBook - 2023

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents an "enlightening history" (Associated Press) of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off.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 disruptiv...e 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... more