Media Diet: Stacy Horn
ECHO's Founder and Digital Author
January/February 1996
Joshua Glenn, Utne Reader
Stacy Horn is the founder and president of Echo, a thriving electronic salon of over 4,000 professional and amateur artists, filmmakers, writers, and other participants. Unlike many communal spaces on the Internet, it is nearly 40 percent female. Echo features permanent forums hosted by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ms. magazine, the Village Voice, and High Times magazine. Horn and Echo participate in two novel experiments with interactive television: one with the SciFi Channel where live chats on Echo scroll across the bottom of the screen during airings of the show The Prisoner, and another called The Electronic Neighborhood. In addition, Echo produces 'Virtual Culture,' a monthly series at a New York performance space in which leaders in new media answer audience queries. Horn teaches a course at New York University -- also entitled 'Virtual Culture' -- and is the author of The Electronic Mask (Warner Books) and Cyberville Clicks Culture And The Creation of Online Communities (Warner Books). We asked about her media diet.
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What magazines do you read?
- People. And The New Yorker, but only their People-style articles, like the recent one about Lewis Carroll, and the one about finding the remains of the Romanovs. This is the direction I am going as I get older: I only want biography. However, I did just read an issue of something called DoubleTake, which I really liked. It features wonderful photography, and most magazines don't let people write such long and heartfelt articles.
What books have you enjoyed recently?
- I read a lot of fiction. Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson (I read everything she's written again and again), Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories by Joseph Mitchell, anything by Raymond Carver. I saw the movie Shadowlands, about C.S. Lewis, in which there was a great quote that went something like 'We read to know that we are not alone,' which is definitely true for me. That's also what I like about the on-line world: I prefer activities that remind me that I am not alone.
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