At cspan. Org coronavirus. Host joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, technoutopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thanks for joining us try to thanks for having me. Host if i understand correctly the book grew and reporting you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest yes. Around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its magazine that allows people to kind of rome and the generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories. Something else find it interesting time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt fully political in my mind at that time. It was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know whats true or whats important versus irrelevant or how to spend th
Generalists and clever with it the fight interesting stories. Something outside in interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political in my mind at that time. It was sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know whats true of whats important versus irrelevant or how to spend their time. I was looking at this as a tech story, as the business story. I was looking at clickbait farms and had to get you to click on things and waste your time and have make money from that. And then in the middle of 2015 there was a Big Press Conference at trump tower and trumpkim down the escalator and then i suddenly thought, all these forces ive been looking at about how informational architecture online is changing us, thats a political store as well. From there it was kind of off to the races. Host you group your book into two groups of people if i understand it correctly, an
Cspan2 for filling tonight. Thank you very much. From little bit of history but the strand, was founded in 1927 over on Fourth Avenue as will grow. Stretching from union square to us in place, the probe gradually after over 92 years. Genesis will survive her and still run by the best family from the original family who founded it. Were running hundred events a year nearly. I still have new and used books after all this time. Tonight we are excited to be hosting andrew marantz, author of the brenda book antisocial. An extremist, techno utopians in the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew has wig written for the new yorker since 2011 it is also appeared in evers new york magazine, jones the New York Times, among others. And contributed to the new yorker radio hour radio lab. Joining him is fellow new yorker staff writer, ensign cunningham. As magazines go critic. His byline has appeared in the New York Times magazines, New York Times magazines, and book review and alter, the ol
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