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I believe the most popular label for that is "media whore"

• tptacek 10y ago
  That doesn't work either! There are rock star personalities in security who don't seek out media attention, but nonetheless cultivate fandoms and headline conferences. A lot of people are also uncomfortable the the gendering implied in the word "whore". It's not worth litigating here (please let's not), but it's worth knowing about.
  • Canada 10y ago
    What makes a media whore is the desire for attention at any cost. It's toxic behavior, thus the pejorative term for it. I wasn't suggesting the article use it. The label doesn't fit any of the other undesirable behaviors they enumerated.
    • tptacek 10y ago
      You want something past "attention whore", which connotes only aspiration and doesn't capture accumulated social capital. It's the accumulated social capital that makes these people so harmful.