We Are the Nerds : The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

作者：ChristineLagorio-Chafkin

出版社：HachetteBooks

副标题：TheBirthandTumultuousLifeofReddit,theInternet'sCultureLaboratory

出版年：2018-10-2

页数：512

定价：USD18.30

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780316435376

内容简介
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Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet." It's the third most-visited website in the United States–and yet, millions of Americans have no idea what it is.

We Are the Nerds is an engrossing look deep inside this captivating, maddening enterprise, whose army of obsessed users have been credited with everything from solving cold case crimes and spurring tens of millions of dollars in charitable donations to seeding alt-right fury and landing Donald Trump in the White House. We Are the Nerds is a gripping start-up narrative: the story of how Reddit's founders, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, rose up from their suburban childhoods to become millionaires and create an icon of the digital age–before seeing the site engulfed in controversies and nearly losing control of it for good.

Based on Christine Lagorio-Chafkin's exclusive access to founders Ohanian and Huffman, We Are the Nerds is also a compelling exploration of the way we all communicate today–and how we got here. Reddit and its users have become a mirror of the Internet: it has dingy corners, shiny memes, malicious trolls, and a sometimes heart-melting ability to connect people across cultures, oceans, and ideological divides.

作者简介
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Christine Lagorio-Chafkin is an award-winning journalist who has covered culture, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship for the past 15 years. She is senior writer at Inc. magazine and her work has appeared in many other publications, including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post. She was raised on a sheep farm in rural Wisconsin and now lives in New York City with her husband, cats, and toddlers. Her favorite subreddits are r/blep and r/ShowerThoughts.

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最像豆瓣无疑

看了一半，其实更想读到的是媒介批评，reddit和其他互联网产品有何不同，这种不同对人们造成了哪些更深刻的心理和行动上的范式影响？甚至是社会关系？这本书更侧重创业史，当然也是好看的，能感受到智商、运气、团队的力量，一些看似轻飘飘的they did it，其背后是these genius only

读完以后掩卷兴叹希望豆瓣也能有这样一位记者愿意追踪出一本书；虽然叙事风格流水帐化，但Reddit相关的故事人物的戏剧化值得如此叙述：YC的诞生、Swartz、一年卖掉公司成为百万富翁的两位年轻创始人、后续各有雄心但有不少弱点的CEO们、再到创始人回归带领公司。Reddit和豆瓣小组的形态高度相似，其产品形成的时间也基本相同，让我们可以洞见在完全开放的环境下社群的兴亡，乃至最终对于美国社会产生的影响…

一段互联网的秘史。所谓的“人性实验室”，不仅仅在于REDDIT的用户，也在于它的创立者与管理者：YISHAN WONG的不告而别，两位创始人之间的一度反目，Ellen Pao对管理难度的估计不足。读到最后，发现作者偏爱Steve Huffman：他的行为大多有经过思考后的理由。

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