Traffic–PDF – EBook

• Authors: Ben Smith
• File Size: 1 MB
• Format: PDF / EPUB
• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Language: English
• Categories: Engineering - Social & Cultural Aspects of Technology
• Year         : 2023
• ISBN-10:  0593299752
• ISBN-13: 9780593299753

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The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society.

If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith’s Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000s, after the first dotcom crash but before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City rather than Silicon Valley might become tech’s center of gravity. There, within a few square blocks, Nick Denton’s merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti’s sunnier crew at HuffPost and BuzzFeed were building the foundations of viral internet media. It was tech’s age of innocence: the old establishment...