Culture & Technology Book Club: Traffic by Ben Smith

Mon Feb 09 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

Toronto Public Library - Toronto Reference Library | Toronto

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Culture & Technology Book Club: Traffic by Ben Smith
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Join us for a discussion of Traffic  : genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral by Ben Smith (2023)
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The Culture and Technology Book club brings readers together once a month to discuss new and classic texts that raise important questions about the way technology transforms our cultural and political lives.

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Traffic : genius, rivalry, and delusion in the billion-dollar race to go viral by Ben Smith (2023)

Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, reports on popular web news platforms of the 2010s (Buzzfeed, Gawker, HuffPost), their use of viral content strategies, and their role in the spread of right-wing populism.

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