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Traffic : genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral

Smith, Ben (Journalist)2023
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If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's 'Traffic' is the story of the time between the first gusher and the perceptible impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000s, after the first dot-com 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 team at HuffPost and BuzzFeed were building the foundations of viral internet media. It was tech's age of innocence: The old establishment might have been discredited by the Iraq War, but digital news would empower the spread of truth. After all, didn't the progressive internet get Barack Obama elected?
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
Collation:
343 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780593299753 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
070.430973
Language:
English
BRN:
2625826
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