Kyle Chayka
New Yorker staff writer on digital culture; author of Filterworld.
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- Kyle Chayka is an American journalist and cultural critic.
- He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2021, writing the Infinite Scroll column.
- His book Filterworld (2024) is about how recommendation algorithms shape culture.
- In 2016 he coined the term AirSpace for the sameness of cafes and offices worldwide.
Key facts
- Role
- Staff writer, The New Yorker, from 2021; writes the Infinite Scroll column1
- Books
- The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism (2020); Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture (2024)1
- Earlier
- First staff writer and later senior editor at Hyperallergic; co-founded Study Hall with P.E. Moskowitz in 20151
- Education
- B.A., Tufts University, 20101
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