Patty A. Gray#KQEDForum is interviewing Taylor Lorenz about her book Extremely Online. Loving the story she tells of how users—especially women—shaped online platforms in ways that their tech bro creators were clueless about, having failed to understand what it is that people really want from online spaces.
Taylor Lorenz on the ‘Extremely Online’ Influencers Who Shaped the Internet | KQED
Most histories of social media focus on Big Tech: the inventors, the investors and the innovations they made. But Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz writes in her new book “Extremely Online” that “tech founders may control the source code, but users shape the product.” Providing a “social history of social media,” Lorenz looks at how