The Innernet Has Shaped My Career

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The innernet has certainly shaped my career in terms of making a writing carier possible for me. I don't see a future me writing essays or books at any other period and time like ther i just would not be able to be a writer without the internet. But that sense, like being tied to an o mi persona, having the pressure too constantly is very different from group, community, interact ons on a foren. That's all like, everybody's kind of been on the joke. And you can have peers, and you can have a community, i suppose to you're the star, you're the micro celebrity, or the actual celebrity.

Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss how our experience online has evolved over the past three decades, the class backgrounds of tech founders, how the AIDS crisis robbed us an important contribution to the early web, and whether COVID-19 will change how we use platforms in the future.

Joanne McNeil is the author of “Lurking: How a Person Became a User.” She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, WIRED, the Baffler, and more. Follow Joanne on Twitter as @jomc.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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