Jia Tolentino decodes the damaging economic structures behind the Internet

#JiaTolentino​, a staff writer from #TheNewYorker​ and the author of #NewYorkTimesbestseller​ book Trick Mirror gets into an intimate conversation with So Jannelle! She opens up about her writing journey, her Filipino upbringing, her thoughts on Asian hate crimes, her latest role as a new mom and the #Internet​.

A self-confessed Internet creature, who has created her own webpage since she was 10, Jia is now being careful in using social media as she recognizes that there are economic systems such as “surveillance capitalism” and “commodified selfhood” constituting the Internet which greatly affects our life. Acknowledging that these social media platforms with deeply damaging structures are here to stay, Jia tries to be “more human” in using them.

Trick Mirror, published in 2019, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book, and named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, GQ, and the Paris Review. The book has since been translated into eleven languages and is out in paperback now.

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