Kathryn Jezer-Morton and Delia Cai

Journalist and New York magazine columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton discusses The Story of Your Life, her examination of how algorithm-driven platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok have not just changed how we share our lives — but shaped the content of those lives itself.

Through rigorous research and intimate interviews, Jezer-Morton traces how the platforms on which we've documented our milestones, vacations, relationships, and politics for the past two decades have determined what those stories look and sound like — shorter attention spans, spectacle, exaggeration, and all. Smart, funny, and sharply observant.

Jezer-Morton is joined in conversation by writer and editor Delia Cai, author of the media and culture newsletter Deez Links.