Virginia Heffernan | |
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 Heffernan in 2016 | |
| Born | Virginia Page Heffernan August 8, 1969 Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, columnist |
| Education | |
| Genre | Internet Pop culture Media |
Virginia Heffernan (born August 8, 1969) is an American journalist and cultural critic. Since 2015, she has been a political columnist at the Los Angeles Times and a cultural columnist at Wired. From 2003 to 2011, she worked as a staff writer for The New York Times, first as a television critic, then as a magazine columnist, and then as an opinion writer. She has also worked as a senior editor for Harper's Magazine, as a founding editor of Talk, and as a TV critic for Slate. Her 2016 book Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art argued that the Internet is a "massive and collective work of art", one that is a "work in progress",[1] and that the suggested deterioration of attention spans in response to it is a myth.
- ^ Magic and Loss, Simon and Schuster.