Virginia Heffernan was born on August 8,1969 and is an American journalist and cultural critic.
15 Facts About Virginia Heffernan
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Virginia Heffernan has worked as a senior editor for Harper's, as a founding editor of Talk, and as a TV critic for Slate.
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Virginia Heffernan's 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", and that the suggested deterioration of attention spans in response to it is a myth.
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Virginia Heffernan received an English Literature Master's Degree and Ph.
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Virginia Heffernan served as a senior editor at Harper's and founding editor of Talk magazines, and as television critic for the online magazine Slate.
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In June 2013, Virginia Heffernan began a series of articles for Yahoo News, entitled "Glass Menagerie", on her experiences using Google Glass OHMD.
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Virginia Heffernan is a regular contributor to The New York Times, as well as The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Mother Jones, Politico, and many other publications.
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In parallel to writing on the subject, Virginia Heffernan participates actively in social media.
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Virginia Heffernan openly befriends her readers on Facebook, tweets frequently and maintains an active Tumblr.
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In July 2013, Virginia Heffernan published an article entitled "Why I'm a creationist", saying she was "considerably less amused and moved by the character-free Big Bang story than by the twisted and picturesque misadventures of Eve and Adam".
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Virginia Heffernan received criticism from right-wing pundits like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelley.
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From October 2018, Virginia Heffernan was the host of Slate's Trumpcast podcast.
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Virginia Heffernan has contributed to a number of books, covering topics that include depression, TV series and the impact of the internet.
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In 2005, Virginia Heffernan published the comic novel, The Underminer.
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Virginia Heffernan has been online since the age of ten, when she used a Zenith computer terminal and dial-up modem at home to play a MUD at Dartmouth College.