Virginia Heffernan

Virginia Heffernan
Virginia Heffernan in 2016
Born	Virginia Page Heffernan (1969-08-08) August 8, 1969 (age 54) Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
Occupation	Author, columnist
Education	University of Virginia (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
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, 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.