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This week, we're joined by Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz, who has recently published her first book, "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet". Hussein talks to Taylor about how the idea of fame has changed in the past decade of accelerated online culture, whether an abundance of content means that nobody can really be influential anymore, and whether the attempts by creators and online influencers to unionise against tech platforms may lead to a wider acknowledgement of posting as a form of labour.
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If you're in the UK, you can pre-order Taylor's book below:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extremely-Online-Untold-Influence-Internet/dp/1982146869

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/extremely-online-the-untold-story-of-fame-influence-and-power-on-the-internet-taylor-lorenz/7525210

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Chris Lamb

Great ep - turns out memoirs written by women that offer a personal and systemic critique of the internet (its self-mythologising, its culture and its aggressive logical positivism) are totally my bag. I liked Joanne McNeil's "Lurking", Roisin Kiberd's "The Disconnect", Wendy Liu's "Abolish Silicon Valley" and Anna Wiener's "Uncanny Valley", so will definitely be checking out "Extremely Online". (Other recommendations welcome.) More please, anyway.

Jay Bhagat

Yeah, most definitely, the point about celebrity being under the management of PR firms and not everyone is one to insulate themselves