Media

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Media about BECAUSE INTERNET

(There were over 200 media hits for Because Internet in 2019.)

National Radio/TV

National Print/Top Online

Reviews

Excerpts

Interviews and Features

  • CNET – Interview – June 2019 Issue
  • Literary Review of Canada – 07/01/2019
  • Publisher’s Weekly –PW Books of the Week- 7/19/2019
  • The New Yorker – emoji feature – 7/22/2019
  • Vice – interview – 7/23/2019
  • Salon – interview – 7/23/2019
  • Medium’s One Zero – feature “What’s on Your Home Screen” – 7/25/2019
  • Vox– interview – 7/29/2019
  • El País (in Spanish) – feature – 7/30/2019
  • CTVNews.ca – interview – 07/31/2019
  • The Ringer – feature – 8/1/2019
  • The Washington Post – Op-Ed Feature– 8/8/2019
  • Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German) – feature – 8/1/2019
  • Refinery29 – feature– 8/19/2019
  • Wattpad– feature– 8/27/2019
  • Globe and Mail Books section – feature – 8/31/2019
  • WeWork– feature– 9/3/2019
  • Times 2 (London) 10/1/2019
  • Techregister – interview – 10/5/2019
  • The Guardian – interview – 10/11/2019
  • Campaign Live – feature – 11/6/2019
  • NRC (in Dutch) – feature – 11/12/2019
  • Texito – feature – 11/12/2019
  • Science Focus – feature – 11/17/2019
  • Newscabal – feature – 11/19/2019
  • Radio Canada (in French) – feature – 11/20/2019
  • The Conversation – feature – 12/23/2019
  • New Statesman – feature – 12/30/2019
  • Vulture – interview on An A-Z of Words That Defined the Internet in the 2010s– 12/24/2019
  • Mashable – feature “2019 was the year of ‘yikes”– 12/30/2019
  • Science Focus – feature – 1/6/2020
  • Archiletras (in Spanish) – feature – 1/15/2020
  • The Atlantic —feature “Corporate Buzzwords Are How Workers Pretend to Be Adults”– 2/19/2020
  • Kottke.org – feature “Weird Internet Careers”– 3/9/2020
  • CNBC’s Make It – feature “How not to sound like a jerk (and communicate effectively) over Slack and email, according to a linguistics expert”– 3/18/2020
  • Mel Magazine – feature “WILL CORONAVIRUS FINALLY END THE SCOURGE OF ‘I HOPE THIS EMAIL FINDS YOU WELL’? ”– 3/26/2020
  • Electric Literature – feature  “Why “Ok.” Is the Most Terrifying Text You Could Ever Receive” – 4/10/2020
  • Time – feature “’Stay Safe!’ The Art of Emailing During the Coronavirus Pandemic” – 4/24/2020
  • CNBC’s Make It – feature “The psychological reasons why everyone’s burned out on video conferencing” – 4/27/2020

Mentions

Lists, Roundups, and Awards

  • Elle.com – roundup “30 Best Books to Read This Summer” – 5/15/2019
  • Wired.com– roundup “14 Best Summer Reads” – 5/24/2019
  • Esquire.com – “Best Books of Summer 2019” – 5/31/2019
  • Science Magazine – roundup “The scientist’s summer reading list” – 6/3/2019
  • The National Book Review– roundup “5 Hot Books”  –7/3/2019
  • The Turnaround Blog – roundup “2019 Summer Reads”– 7/16/2019
  • Tumblr – roundup “New Release Tuesday” – 7/23/2019
  • Hypebae– roundup “10 Books to Add to Your Vacation Reading List This Summer”  –7/24/2019
  • New York Times– roundup “Editor’s Choice”– 8/4/2019
  • Esquire “The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019”  – 9/26/2019
  • Real Simple “Best Books of 2019”  – 10/1/2019
  • BBC Science Focus – roundup “The 100 Must Reads of 2019”  – 11/14/2019
  • Esquire.com– roundup “The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 Span Everything From True Crime to Scammer Culture” -12/3/2019
  • Popsugar– roundup “18 Quirky Nonfiction Books That Will Make Perfect Holiday Gifts” – 12/3/2019
  • Science Friday – roundup “The Best Science Books Of 2019” – 12/6/2019
  • Vox – roundup “The best books I read in 2019” – 12/6/2019
  • AtomicDust– roundup “What We’re Reading, Watching and Listening To Over Holiday Break” – 12/11/2019
  • Bloomberg– roundup “Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 for Contrarians and the Curious” – 12/16/2019
  • Blinkist – roundup “The Biggest Nonfiction Books of 2019” – 12/17/2019
  • Mashable “10 books about tech for every kind of person in your life” – 10/21/2019
  • Better– roundup “The 10 Best Books of 2019”– 12/24/2019
  • Lithhub – roundup “The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part 1”– 12/24/2019
  • Popsugar– roundup “45 Nonfiction Books We Couldn’t Put Down in 2019”– 12/26
  • Washington Post 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019
  • TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019
  • Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist 2019
  • An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of 2019
  • BookPage – Best Books of 2019 in the “Lighthearted Nonfiction” category
  • Washington Independent Review of Books’s favourite books of 2019
  • Harvard Business Review’s “Ascend” – roundup “10 Best Books You Should Read if You’re Looking for Something New”– 1/7/2020
  • Bookriot – roundup “RIOT ROUNDUP: THE BEST BOOKS WE READ OCTOBER–DECEMBER 2019”– 1/7/2020
  • Tor.com– roundup “Jo Walton’s Reading List: January 2020”– 2/5/2020
  • HerCampus.com – roundup “3 Books To Read While Stuck At Home” – 3/30/2020
  • Tor.com – roundup “Books that Grab You” – 4/21/2020
  • Tom’s Guide – roundup “The best books to read while stuck at home” – 4/26/2020

Newsletters and blogs

Podcasts

Local Print/Online

Local Radio/TV

Other Media, not about BECAUSE INTERNET

Television

Radio

Podcasts

Profiles of me

Print/Web

Highlights:

From my SXSW talk about emoji:

Long list of other print/online media: