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How do YouTube influencers neg their audiences into taking lifestyle advice?
Internet culture writer Steffi Cao joins Jamie to discuss how influencers undermine audiences with video titles that are not what they seem. The two discuss authenticity on social media platforms, why clickbait titles still reign supreme, and if there’s anything positive to come of this trend.
📖 Read YouTube Influencers want to neg you into taking lifestyle advice in Fast Company
About Steffi Cao
Steffi Cao is an internet culture writer, most recently reporting at BuzzFeed News and Forbes as its inaugural creator economy staff writer. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Bustle, and MTV News. Her work, including her eponymous newsletter, it’s steffi, was featured on NPR and The View this year. She resides in Brooklyn, and her favorite berry is the blueberry.
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What is the true potential of AI text-to-video generation?
Director of Curiouser Institute and award-winning AI games designer Reed Berkowitz discusses OpenAI's Sora, an AI text-to-image model that will soon be made available to the public. As Hollywood rolls back studio investments and executives project up to 90% loss in animation jobs, how can we separate hype from reality in the space? And what are the best ways to use AI text-to-video generation today?
Show notes:
OpenAI's Sora
Jeffrey Katzenberg claims 90% of artist animation jobs will be lost due to AI
Tyler Perry stops $800 million studio investment after OpenAI's Sora
Bill Peebles alien generation
Blaine Brown alien remix
AnimateDiff
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser Institute, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
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How will creators and tech companies grapple with the decline of journalism?
On this week's episode, Jamie and Josh discuss the relationship between creators, platforms, and journalists, the ongoing shift from legacy news sources to platforms like TikTok and YouTube for news consumption, and how venture-backed outlets built on the promise of digital advertising contributed to journalism's current crisis. Additionally, they highlight what gives them hope about journalism's future – and how you can help contribute to it.
Show Notes
More than half of U.S. counties have no access or very limited access to local news - Northwestern
More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking the trend seen on most other social media sites - Pew Research Center
S&P 500 Closes at Record High as Wall Street Bulls Run Wild - Axios
In a Pennsylvania town, a Facebook group fills the local news void - Brandy Zadrozny
Carol's Journey - Brandy Zadrozny
404 Media
Defector
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How can we separate hype from hallucination in AI games?
Award-winning games designer and Director of Curiouser Institute Reed Berkowitz discusses why it's so difficult for mid-to-large studios to create AI NPCs, the brand safety risks associated with AI in games, and why AI games might require more writers rather than fewer.
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📰 You can read AI Powered NPCs — Hype, or Hallucination and AI in Games: Complicated Characters on Medium.
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser LLC, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
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Where can creators turn after they’ve been cancelled?
Internet culture writer Steffi Cao discusses why cancelled creators turn to right-wing values to grow their businesses, the difficulty audiences have determining authenticity, and why it all matters – from economics to real-world action.
📖 Read Influencers are pandering to conservatives to salvage their post-cancellation careers in Fast Company.
About Steffi Cao
Steffi Cao is an internet culture writer, most recently reporting at BuzzFeed News and Forbes as its inaugural creator economy staff writer. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Bustle, and MTV News. Her work, including her eponymous newsletter, it’s steffi, was featured on NPR and The View this year. She resides in Brooklyn, and her favorite berry is the blueberry.
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How did Palantir develop a meme-obsessed fanbase of retail traders — and what does it mean?
Business Insider senior correspondent Katie Notopoulos discusses the livestreaming, meme-making community behind Palantir's stock and the company's CEO Alex Karp.
📖 Read How Palantir stock developed a weird, passionate, meme-crazy fan base on Fast Company.
About Katie Notopoulos
Katie Notopoulos is a senior correspondent at Business Insider writing about technology and business. Based in New York, you can email her knotopoulos@businessinsider.com or message her on Twitter @katienotopoulos. She covers topics on internet culture, big tech, social platforms, crypto, and personal tech. Previously, Katie was a tech reporter at BuzzFeed News and has written for Fast Company, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and MIT Technology Review.
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How can we explore visions for a better internet as it undergoes a monumental evolution?
Media literacy influencer Kelsey Russell, award-winning journalist Kat Tenbarge, digital culture journalist Steffi Cao, and moderator Rachel E. Greenspan explore the role of surveillance and the rise of panopticontent, the importance of trust and safety on healthy platforms, and why youth voices need to be included in conversations about social media platform development. This panel was recorded live from Digital Void's The Meme in the Moment Festival 2023 at Caveat in New York City on December 14, 2024.
About Kat Tenbarge
Kat Tenbarge is an award-winning tech and culture reporter for NBC News Digital. Her coverage includes platforms, influencers, celebrities, and online culture. She also investigates sexual assault allegations.
About Kelsey Russell
Kelsey Russell is a content creator and full time graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University. Kelsey Russell believes education should be entertaining and entertainment should be educational. This mantra comes to life on her TikTok page of almost 100K followers where she dynamically reads different forms of print media to her audience. By promoting an approach to new information from a state of curiosity and nostalgia, she hopes to make generations fall back in love with learning. Russell graduated from Boston University with a BA in sociology and is originally from Atlanta, Georgia.
About Steffi Cao
Steffi Cao is an internet culture writer, most recently reporting at BuzzFeed News and Forbes as its inaugural creator economy staff writer. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Bustle, and MTV News. Her work, including her eponymous newsletter, it’s steffi, was featured on NPR and The View this year. She resides in Brooklyn, and her favorite berry is the blueberry.
About Rachel E. Greenspan
Rachel E. Greenspan is a writer and social media strategist in New York. Previously, she was a reporter and editor on Insider’s Digital Culture desk, where she focused on right-wing extremism and its spread on social platforms. Her coverage of the QAnon conspiracy theory won the inaugural Best Debunking of Fake News award from NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her writing has also been published in Time Magazine and MSNBC.
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How do reboots and IP fueled universes prevent us from ever feeling nostalgia?
Author of Foreverism Grafton Tanner discusses how the practice of keeping things alive prevents us from ever feeling nostalgia.
📚 You can order Foreverismby Grafton Tanner now!
About Grafton Tanner:
Grafton Tanner is the author of Foreverism, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia (Repeater Books, 2021), The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech (Zer0 Books, 2020), and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (Zer0 Books, 2016). His work focuses on nostalgia, technology, and the rhetoric of neoliberalism, and his writing has appeared in such venues as NPR, The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Real Life. He also hosts Delusioneering, an audio series about the myths of capitalism, and he writes and performs music with his band Superpuppet. He’s currently writing a book on the re-emergence of exorcism in the late twentieth century.
03:30 The History and Politics of Nostalgia
04:11 The Shift in Perception of Nostalgia
04:27 The Impact of Nostalgia on Consumer Choices
04:51 The Medical Roots of Nostalgia
05:19 The Concept of Foreverism
05:52 The Evolution of Nostalgia to Commercial Term
07:50 The Impact of IP Fueled Universes on Nostalgia
11:02 The Commodification of Nostalgia
12:08 Persistent Storylling
21:30 The Shift in Acting Practices due to Foreverism
30:23 The Consequences of Foreverism on the Planet
36:03 Resisting Foreverism
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How does creative misuse of social media platforms inform the future of social media?
Director of Curiouser Institute Reed Berkowitz highlights five popular ways people are engaging, interacting, and using social platforms - ranging from Life360 to games - and what it means for how we imagine and create a social media future that enhances our social capacities.
📰 You can read Everything About Social Media Is About To Change Again on Medium.
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser LLC, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
🎟️ Digital Void is thrilled to announce a special Team Human Live featuring Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Mitch Horowitz on Saturday, Oct. 28, at Caveat in New York City! Join two award-winning authors for a special live podcast taping, book signing, live music, and social hour. Click here for tickets and livestream.
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Show Notes and Resources:
Everything About Social Media Is About To Change Again - Reed Berkowitz
xhumming
Lofi girl
Pokémon Sleep
Life360
Roblox
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Washington Post tech columnist and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet Taylor Lorenz explores the social history of the internet. How did Mommy Bloggers shape the creator economy? What is Vine's influence on today's social media ecosystem – and how can its demise be a lesson for creators and platforms? Plus, why is it important to remain optimistic about social media platforms and technology?
📚 Pre-order now: Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
About Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz is a technology columnist for The Washington Post’s business section covering online culture. Previously, she was a technology reporter for The New York Times business section, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Outside magazine, Fast Company, and more.
Show Notes & Resources:
Daily Dot
Okay Go - Here It Goes Again
Tiger Beat
Heather Armstrong
Mommy Bloggers
Famous Birthdays
Casey Neistat interviews Robert Kinsel
Stream Con
Elsagate
Adpocalypse
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Cores are everywhere. From the film-inspired Barbiecore to Cottagecore – but how does a new core threaten to surveil everyday people?
On today’s episode, Jamie provides us with a dispatch about the differences between Cores and aesthetics, the ways Cores present themselves online and offline, and why #humancore should be viewed with a critical eye.
Show Notes & Resources:
Once upon a time, there was cottagecore - Rebecca Jennings
Taylor Lorenz on living life extremely online - The Digi Fairy
Panopticontent - Buzzfeed News
Why women of color are missing from TikTok's 'stay-at-home girlfriend' trend - Insider
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How did an early YouTube vlog style return to popularity after a generation of TikTok and YouTube creators including Emma Chamberlain and Charli D'amelio went mainstream?
On today's episode, Jamie and Josh discuss how early YouTube creators like Tyler Oakley pivoted from creating content for family and friends to developing a public personality that came to define influencer culture at-large – and how a new generation of creators are documenting the banal and mundane in their content.
Show notes and resources
Vlog Like Nobody's Watching - Kate Fowler
sunday in edinburgh - Whatzaraloves
Raindrop - Tyler Oakley
Influencer Culture is Everywher – Even in Academia - Brooke Erin Duffy
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman
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How will AI, algorithms, creators, and data transparency shape the future of Hollywood?
On today's episode, Jamie and Josh dive into the key issues behind the SAG-AFTRA strike. How do major studios plan to use AI – and how can they come to an agreement with unions to ensure actors and writers are fairly compensated? How does a lack of data transparency from streamers and studios influence residual structures and the development of future projects? Why are non-union creators and influencers standing in solidarity with the unions – and what is their role in the evolving digital ecosystem?
Show notes and resources
What Happened the Last Time SAG and the WGA Went on Strike Together - TIME
Background Actors Sound Off on Alarming AI Future and What's At Stake In The Actors Strike - HuffPost
Christopher Nolan: Companies Don't Want To Take Responsibility For Whatever That Algorithm Does - Deadline
FAQs For Influencers - SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA issues strike guidance specifically for influencers amid confusion - NBC News
5 Predictions for the Future of Digital Media - BuzzFeed
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How did Barbie and Oppenheimer become a highly anticipated double feature audiences have named Barbenheimer?
This week, Josh and Jamie explore the history behind one of the summer's most anticipated box office weekends. How did a falling out between Christopher Nolan and WBD lead to this weekend's double feature? How have studios done an effective job allowing audiences to be creative and have fun with the film releases – and why shouldn't studios use this weekend as a blueprint?
Show Notes & Resources:
DiscussingFilm's viral tweet
@ULTRAGLOSS/ Trish's tweet
Airbnb Malibu Barbie Dream House
Over 20,000 people buy tickets to Barbenheimer
Margot Robie signs a fan's Barbenheimer shirt
Cillian Murphy endorses Barnenheimer
Entertainment Tonight asks: What should you wear to Barbenheimer?
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Meta’s primary Twitter competitor Threads earned more than 100 million downloads in its first five days - but what are the three key components required for the platform’s long-term success?
On today’s episode, Jamie and Josh discuss the factors that led to the platform’s successful launch, how trust and safety protocols gave it an edge, and if Threads will allow Meta to shake off some of its negative reputation.
This episode was recorded on Thursday, July 6, 2023.
Show Notes
Twitter’s US Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue - NYT
Instagram’s Threads bursts out of the gate with more than 30 million sign-ups - NBC News
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How can we be critical of fear-based AI hype cycles? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently made headlines when he issued a 22-word statement warning of extinction due to the threats posed by AI - but what is Altman referring to, and what did he omit from his argument?
This week, Jamie and Josh offer a critical discourse about the current AI hype cycle, the push for regulation by the most influential tech companies, and how the public's cynicism about emerging technology might support regulatory efforts.
Show Notes
22-word statement
Gartner Hype Cycle
Tech leaders call for a six-month pause
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What does it mean to be a rebel in a digital age? PEN Award-winning author Mitch Horowitz provides us with three strategies to move forward. Recorded live at Digital Void's Meme in the Moment Festival in New York City on Wednesday, October 26, 2022.
🎟️ You can see Mitch and an incredible lineup of speakers including Shannon Liao, Allegra Frank, Douglas Rushkoff, Ena Da, and Ryan Broderick at Memes, Myths, and Magic on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at New York City's Caveat. Click here to purchase tickets and livestream!
📺 Click here to watch this video on YouTube.
📰 You can read excerpts of Horowitz's talk, What Does iI Mean to Be a Rebel In a Coarse Era?, on Medium.
About Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition. Mitch is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea; The Miracle Club; Daydream Believer; Uncertain Places; and the forthcomingModern Occultism.
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How did one of Broadway’s newest shows become a cringeworthy TikTok trend that earned tens of millions of views?
Rolling Stone internet culture reporter CT Jones discusses how Bad Cinderellabecame an ironic trend for audiences. How did the show’s development and debut on London’s West End hurt the Andrew Lloyd Weber production? What does cringe mean in the context of trends and why does it drive discourse? How can we differentiate between genuine enthusiasm and ironic enthusiasm from fans on social media?
About CT Jones
CT Jones is an internet culture reporter for Rolling Stone focused on creator culture and LGBTQ+ news.
Keep up with CT Jones
Twitter | Linktree | Rolling Stone Articles
Show Notes and Resources:
Even TikTok Couldn’t Save Broadway’s ‘Bad Cinerella’ - Rolling Stone
Linedy Genao spray paint video - TikTok
Morbius gets resurrected by memes, flops on its first day back in theatres - The Verge
Spitgate
🔮 Digital Void’s Memes, Myths, and Magic premieres at Caveat on Saturday, April 29, at 7:00 PM ET! Join a prolific speaker lineup as we explore the ways memes, myths, and magic influence our world in a digital age. From AI ethics to historical creepypasta trends - you’ll hear from a range of experts about how we can make sense of digital culture in live communities. Featuring CT Jones, Moises Mendez II, Kelsey Weekman, Abby Govindan, Annie Rauwerda, Alex Petros, Morris Kolman, Ryan Broderick, and Jamie Cohen. *Tickets are now available.*
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How can creators avoid being creatively trapped by the audiences they worked to build? Where is there space for creators to take risks?
Zine writer Matt Klein discusses his first-ever printed edition: Audience Capture. Klein explains the social theory behind the phenomenon, what happens to creators and audiences when audience capture is taken to its extreme, and how creators can resist becoming stuck. Klein’s insights help to empower creators and audiences to create a healthier landscape between creators and audiences.
📰 You can order Audience Capture now.
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About Matt Klein
Matt Klein heads the foresight practice at Reddit where he studies culture and helps brands across all verticals identify emerging social shifts and author future-proofing business strategies.
As a quantitative futurist with a decade of experience in trend forecasting, marketing and innovation, Matt has consulted with the United Nations and Fortune 100 businesses, to venture capital investors, TV producers, and startups on what comes next. With a background in CyberPsychology and Memetics, Matt’s POV is rooted in the psycho- and sociological implication of emerging tech.
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Show Notes and Resources:
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman
Rick Rubin: The audience doesn’t know what they want - 60 Minutes
🔮 Digital Void’s Memes, Myths, and Magic premieres at Caveat on Saturday, April 29, at 7:00 PM ET! Join a prolific speaker lineup as we explore the ways memes, myths, and magic influence our world in a digital age. From AI ethics to historical creepypasta trends - you’ll hear from a range of experts about how we can make sense of digital culture in live communities.
Featuring: Kelsey Weekman, Abby Govindan, Annie Rauwerda, CT Jones, Moises Mendez II, Alex Petros, Morris Kolman, Ryan Broderick, and Jamie Cohen. Tickets are now available.
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How has a Type 2 diabetes drug become a go-to for celebrities and influencers looking to lose weight — and what are the damaging effects of its popularity?
This week, we invited Buzzfeed reporter Kelsey Weekman to discusses her article, The Oscars Were a Nightmare For Fat People at Every Turn,. Weekman discusses how this year’s Academy Awards highlighted the stigmas fat people face in Hollywood and influencer culture — and why she decided to speak out. Further, Weekman explains the rise of Type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic for weight loss. Why is the drug more popular than ever? What can tech companies and influencers do to promote more inclusive spaces?
About Kelsey Weekman
Kelsey Weekman is a journalist specializing in internet culture and Gen Z. She is currently a social news reporter for BuzzFeed News. On the side, she writes a newsletter about online youth culture called okay zoomer.
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Show Notes and Resources:
The Oscars Were A Nightmare For Fat People At Every Turn - Kelsey Weekman
Maintenance Phase -Aubrey Gordon
🔮 Digital Void’s Memes, Myths, and Magic premieres at Caveat on Saturday, April 29, at 7:00 PM ET! Join a prolific speaker lineup as we explore the ways memes, myths, and magic influence our world in a digital age. From AI ethics to historical creepypasta trends - you’ll hear from a range of experts about how we can make sense of digital culture in live communities. Featuring Kelsey Weekman, Abby Govindan, Annie Rauwerda, CT Jones, Moises Mendez II, Alex Petros, Morris Kolman, Ryan Broderick, and Jamie Cohen. Tickets are now available!
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Why do black TikTok creators struggle to earn credit for their original work?
This week, TIME staff writer Moises Mendez II explains how TikTok creator Jordyn Williams is fighting for credit after her #NoLove dance went viral. How is Williams’ struggle symptomatic of the struggles black creators encounter on the platform? Further, Mendez outlines the key struggles creators face, from monetization to harassment, and shares his vision of a better social media landscape.
About Moises Mendez II
Moises Mendez II is a staff writer at TIME. He covers internet culture, movies, books, TV, podcasts, and music. His work can be seen in the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, HuffPost, and more.
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Show Notes and Resources:
Jordyn Williams is Here to Take the Credit for her Viral TikTok Dance - TIME
Why Is It So Hard for Black Creators to Get Their Due? - Rolling Stone
The Original Renegade - New York Times
How YouTube’s Beauty Community Fell Apart with an Explosive Feud Called ‘Dramageddon’ - Insider
YouTube Creator: Monet McMichael
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How can we learn more about AI's design and development to better understand its emergence? Director of Curiouser Institute and AI games designer Reed Berkowitz explains what really happened when New York Times columnist Kevin Roose talked to Bing's Syndey chatbot – and how mainstream media outlets can consider different ways of discussing AI.
Further, Berkowitz helps us understand the realities of AI game design and development. What role do artists play in working with developers? How does a recent US copyright ruling stand to impact AI developers, artists, and designers? Berkowitz explains it all – and leaves us with his vision of an ideal AI future.
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser LLC, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
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Show Notes and Resources:
Cleverbot
Latitude’s Loom
Twitter teaches Microsoft's AI chatbot to be racist in less than a day - The Verge
Latitude
Gather.town
Stable Diffusion
AI Copyright Battle over Zarya the Dawn
ControlNet
Astropulse
Ender's Game
Replika
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How does an activist Instagram account help bring attention - and change - to New Orleans’ streets? On this week’s episode, we welcome Digital Void collaborator, PhD student, and researcher Alex Turvy to discuss Look at This Fuckin’ Street: an Instagram account that highlights hazardous roads, potholes, and crumbling infrastructure to put pressure on city government to improve long-ignored conditions.
This conversation was recorded on February 27, 2023
About Alex Turvy:
Alex Turvy is a PhD student and researcher focused on digital culture and memes. Currently, he is working on a few different threads of research: how identity and authenticity are performed on social media, niche meme pages on Instagram and memetic literacy, and how boundaries and deviance are managed by communities on TikTok. What ties these together is an interest in understanding how practices on social media are woven through everyday life -- despite what you hear sometimes, social media is very much real life. Prior to this, he spent ten years working in public schools, spending five years as an early elementary teacher and five years as Director of Operations. He lives in New Orleans with his partner Devon and their daughter June.
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Twitter | Instagram
Show Notes:
Look at This Fuckin’ Street Instagram
12:47 - Critical Discourse Analysis
20:26 -Decorated pothole, Another Decorated Pothole
31:00 - MCM Wholesale Instagram
32:15 - Digital Dualism
Editorial note: Turvy’s paper is not yet available to the public. This conversation was recorded to bring attention to a digital activist cause in New Orleans.
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How will Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter reshape the landscape of social media?
Creator and host of the award-winning podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet Bridget Todd explains where people can go to find alternatives to mainstream social media platforms, her vision for a more equitable social media future, and how Musk's Twitter purchase stands to reshape the way we communicate on the platform. How can we best align our values with our digital platforms?
This conversation was recorded on October 5, 2022.
About Bridget Todd:
Bridget Todd is the Director of Communications at UltraViolet, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast There Are No Girls On The Internet, and co-host of City Cast DC. Todd got her start teaching courses on writing and social change at Howard University. Since then, she's trained human rights activists in Australia, coordinated digital strategy for organizations like Planned Parenthood, the Women's March, and MSNBC. She’s the founder and CEO of Unbossed Creative, a mission driven creative studio that makes podcasts and other digital content to push the needle on social change and public good.
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On this week's episode, Jamie takes a deep dive into why civil rights groups are pushing back against Amazon’s new television show, Ring Nation.
You can read a written version of this week's episode, Why Civil Rights Groups Are Pushing Back Against Amazon's New Show, on Medium.
Show notes and resources:
Letter Calling on MGM to Cancel Ring Nation
This week, we're joined by author of Rabbits, CEO of Minnow Beats Whale, and co-creator of The Black Tapes, Terry Miles.
Miles explains the origins of The Black Tapes, the playful interactivity fictional podcasts afford creators and audiences, and the worldbuilding required for people to become fully immersed in a story. How do people respond to a paranormal version of Serial? In what ways does it mirror audience's first interactions with Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast?
Then, Miles discusses Rabbits: Why do alternate reality games feel appropriate for our digital moment? When experience and time flatten, why can the world feel like an ARG, itself?
About Terry Miles:
Terry Miles is an award-winning Writer/Director/Producer who was born among the wheat fields in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, raised in the plains beneath the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and forged by rain in the deep emerald gloom of the Pacific Northwest. He’s a novelist, filmmaker, podcaster and the CEO and founder of Minnow Beats Whale.
As Writer/Director/Producer, Terry's had three feature films premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and has been nominated for ten Leo Awards (Producing, Writing, Directing, Editing, and Cinematography). Terry created his first few podcasts in 2006, but soon movies took over. Just about a decade later, he founded The Public Radio Alliance which features the hit podcasts: TANIS, RABBITS, and The Last Movie. He also co-created The Black Tapes Podcast and directed a western starring Donald Sutherland and Christian Slater, an action movie starring Steve Austin, Danny Trejo and Serinda Swan, and more. He's also written and directed numerous award-winning short films, web series, and alternate reality games.
Show Notes and Resources:
The Black Tapes
Tanis
Rabbits
War of the Worlds - Orson Welles (1938)
Strand Institute
Cicada 3301
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Game
The New Hollywood
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On this week's episode, Jamie and Josh discuss the history and context behind Dark Brandon memes. How did Joe Biden become featured in memes with laser eyes and dark aesthetics? How we can make sense of the trend's influence on culture and media narratives? What is its true influence?
Show Notes and Resources:
Laser Eyes
Stage One Memes: lolspeak
Stage Two Memes: LOLcats
Stage Three Memes: Breakdown of Structure
Stage Four Memes: Deep Fried Era
Vince McMahon meme
Galaxy Brain Meme
Dark MAGA
Based memes
Biden calls Trump’s philosophy Semi-Fascism
Umberto Eco’s 14 guidelines of fascism
Biden and Trump Covid meme
Biden Neutralized meme
Brandon Eyepatch Meme
Joe Biden Speech Photo (Sept. 1)
Biden IRS Meme
Biden Star Wars Meme
Trump calls democrats fascists
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What can the history of virtual reality development teach us about its path forward?
On this week's episode, Jamie and Josh look back 30 years to the first attempt to mainstream commercial virtual reality. Why didn't haptics and headsets earn mass adoption?
Further, they discuss the other uses for the metaverse and virtual reality. What do corporations stand to gain if VR goes mainstream? What are the risks associated with a centralized VR ecosystem?
Show Notes and Resources:
Nick Bostrom
Differential
VRChat
Jaron Lanier
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Englebart Mouse Device
Sensorama
Sword of Damocles VR (video)
Videoplace
SENSE8
Palmer Luckey
Road to Nowhere - Paris Marx
Palantir
Virtual Reality Is Missing Its Moment...Again - Jamie Cohen
Moore’s Law
Ready Player One
Microsoft HoloLens
Google Glass
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How can memes encoded with aesthetics, nuance, and meta text become accessible to everyone?
This week, Jamie and Josh discuss memes, algospeak, and access: How can meme creators and platforms utilize alt-text to help the vision impaired? Why is alt-text essential to help everyone access and understand the rapidly evolving memetic moment?
Show notes & resources:
Digital Dualism
Jamie Cohen on CBC Spark
Algospeak
TikTok Moderators Are Being Trained Using Graphic Images of Child Sexual Abuse
The Secret Lives on Facebook moderators in America
Say My Meme Podcast
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How can humans determine if an Artificial Intelligence is sentient when sentience is what AI is designed to imitate?
This week, we’re joined by Artificial Intelligence games designer Reed Berkowitz.
Berkowitz discusses former Google Responsible AI team member Blake Lemoine’s claim that Google’s AI chatbot LaMDA is sentient. What made Lemoine believe this? How can we come to understand Lemoine’s belief?
To help us, Berkowitz delivers an AI primer: From AI games to the most popular use cases of the technology, he gives a brief explanation of the terms we need to understand. Then, he discusses an experiment he conducted with an open-source AI chatbot to learn if he can achieve the same results as Lemoine.
Does Lemoine have a case? If not, where did Lemoine go wrong?
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser LLC, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
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Show Notes and Resources:
OpenAI/GPT-3
May be Fired Soon for Doing AI Ethics Work - Blake Lemoine
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has become sentient - The Washington Post
Is LaMDA Sentient? - Blake Lemoine
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How can nostalgia inspire memes that motivate and mobilize communities?
Last week, Jamie and Josh discussed how the term “meme culture” is in jeopardy of being co-opted by extremists. This week, they welcome back Grafton Tanner to take a deeper dive into the topic.
What is vaporwave, and what characteristics of its aesthetic that afford itself to be used by these communities? How do aesthetics and fandoms intertwine? How can corporations grapple with feelings of nostalgia in intensely devoted fandoms?
About Grafton Tanner:
Grafton Tanner is the author of The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia (Repeater Books, 2021), The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech (Zer0 Books, 2020), and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (Zer0 Books, 2016).
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Show Notes:
Babbling Corpse - Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts - Grafton Tanner
Muzak
Synthwave
DawnFM
Chord Progression of Boys of Summer
Persistent Storytelling - Kathleen Kennedy
Outrun
TradCath
Fauxtomation - Astra Taylor
Ghost Work - Mary L. Gray
San Junipero
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock - Grafton Tanner
Masters of the Userverse - Grafton Tanner, Real Life
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We need to talk about meme culture.
How are the aesthetics and vibes of memes turning into an action language? Jamie and Josh explore the ways memes inspire action: From #Gentleminions to extremist movements.
Further, they explore how people outside of in-group communities can understand intent when nothing is explicitly being said. Is the term meme culture in jeopardy of being entirely co-opted?
Show Notes & Resources:
The Case for Anonymity Online - Chris Poole (TED Talk)
Owling
Tebowing
Planking
Minions: Rise of Gru
How Minions Destroyed the Internet - Brian Feldman
Summer of Morbius - Garbage Day
Deep Fried Memes
Elad Nehorai Tweet
2014 Isla Vista Killings
The Fat Jewish
The Harlem Shake
Limor Shifman
Grafton Tanner
Western Chauvinism
The Moog Synthesizer
Vaporwave
Vaporwave memes
Muzak
Lo-Fi Beats to Study To
A Haircut Returns From the 1930s - NYT
FashWave
Neoliberalism
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Why do Silicon Valley’s promises about the future of transportation never seem to work out?
Paris Marx, author of The Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won’t Save Us dives into the reality underpinning the promises made by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. Why can’t electric vehicles address the problems created by the automobile industry? To push back against Silicon Valley’s promises, Marx helps us imagine a more accessible and equitable transportation future.
About Paris Marx:
Paris Marx is a Canadian technology writer whose work has been published by NBC News, CBC News, Jacobin, and Tribune, among many others. Paris is also a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland and the host of the critical technology podcast Tech Won’t Save Us.
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Show Notes:
From Counterculture to Cyberculture - Fred Turner
Whole Earth Catalog - Stewart Brand
Jarrett Walker - Elite Project
The Facebook Papers - Francis Haugen
For more on Peter Thiel’s philosophy, read here:
From Zero to One, New Yorker profile
Techlash
It’s Time to Build - Andreesen Horowitz essay
Uber Files
Social Reconstruction - Peter Norton
An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Musk’s leaked text messages to Bill Gates
The Bird App
Fort Lauderdale Boring Company Tunnel
The Carrier Theory of Fiction - Ursula LeGuin
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Jamie and Josh dive into a brief history of how war and conflict play out in cyberspace, ranging from 9/11 and Syria to how Ukraine is using Twitter in its fight against Russia.
We're coming to Washington DC! Join us for Our Connected Future on Wednesday, March 23, at Union Stage. Join Jamie in conversation with DC Bureau Chief Ryan Grim, a live taping of Bridget Todd's award-winning podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet featuring journalist Amanda Moore, and a panel by All Tech is Human:
https://www.unionstage.com/shows/digital-void-presents-our-connected-future/
Digital Void is hosted by Jamie Cohen (@newanddigital) and Josh Chapdelaine (@joshchapdelaine).
Jamie Cohen dives into the debate Wikipedia editors are having about how artworks are categorized on the website — and what it means for NFTs.
📰 You can read Jamie's monologue, Wikipedia Doesn't Consider NFTs Art, and Crypto Investors Are Worried, on Medium
Daily Beast reporter and author of Off The Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything Kelly Weill explores how we arrived at our polarized and conspiratorial moment, ranging from the origins of flat earth theory to the tragic effects of contemporary believers.
📕 Kelly's book, Off The Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything is available now from your favorite local bookseller.
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Resident Fellow at Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab and host of SH!TPOST Jared Holt explains the ways domestic extremists adapted and evolved after the January 6 attack, shares how we can avoid being bystanders in the face of fascism, and explores the real-world effects of posting and media martyrdom.
📰 Read Holt's report: After the insurrection: How domestic extremists adapted and evolved after the January 6 US Capitol attack
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Author of The Palmer Hotel Rick Paulas shares how his book became a meme through his reply guy tweets, how his Twitter ban created a Barbara Streisand effect for his book, and why Twitter should be entirely eradicated if humans stand a chance for a better future.
Paulas will be signing copies of the Palmer Hotel at Digital Void's Meme in the Moment Festival: Make it Spoopy. Live from Caveat NYC on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:00 PM ET.
🎟 Tickets and livestream now available: https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-the-meme-in-the-moment-festival-make-it-spoopy-10-27-2021
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Insider digital culture editor and writer Rachel E. Greenspan explores her career path to the disinformation beat, how the insurrection showed us that it's too dangerous to ignore what happens online, and right-wing media's continued attacks on Taylor Lorenz and other journalists.
Greenspan will be a speaker at Digital Void's Meme in the Moment Festival: Make it Spoopy. Live from Caveat NYC on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:00 PM ET.
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⏳ Author of The Hours Have Lost Their Clock Grafton Tanner explains how nostalgia is the emotion of our time. Tanner explores nostalgia from its roots as an illness that was once considered a cause of death to how nostalgia is affected by climate change and species extinction. From endless sequels and franchises to early-pandemic nostalgia, Tanner provides a detailed overview of nostalgia — and shares how we can be more mindful of its existence.
📚 You can purchase The Hours Have Lost Their Clock at your local independent bookstore and via Bookshop.
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Freelance culture writer Moises Mendez IIdiscusses the path he took to become a journalist, controversies surrounding queerbaiting in mainstream culture, the importance of TikTok Star Tally Dilbert's influence on young Afro-Latinos, and the connection between Gabby Petito and Couch Guy. Plus, Mendez reveals his favorite meme of all-time.
Mendez will be a speaker at Digital Void's Meme in the Moment Festival: Make it Spoopy. Live from Caveat NYC on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:00 PM ET.
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2017 College Jeopardy winner, author of How to Survive a Public Faming: “Understanding “The Spiciest Memelord” via the Temporal Dynamics of Involuntary Celebrificationand graduate student at MIT Lilly Chin shares the story of how she became "The Spiciest Memelord", the structural issues and lack of institutional support associated with overnight fame, and strategies to properly respond to online harassment and trolls.
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Founder of the Meme Studies Research Network (MSRN) and doctoral researcher in sociology Idil Galip explains how she started an international and interdisciplinary research network for scholars who study memes to collaborate and organize. Further, she explains how Turkey’s Gezi Park Protests inspired her memetic research, explores how memes are generation artifacts, and the dangers of assuming people engage with memes in good faith.
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Author of TikTok Boom and journalist Chris Stokel-Walker explores the strategy behind TikTok’s explosive rise in the west, the differences between Silicon Valley and Chinese technology, and how the features of TikTok are designed to mirror people’s performances back onto themselves, allowing them to feel like they are part of a community.
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Writer for Uprising: A Guide from Portland and Bellingcat and a researcher for Behind the Bastards and Worst Year Ever, Garrison Davis explains the evolution of “White Boy Summer” from Chet Hanks music video to white supremacist meme.
Davis shares the story of how “White Boy Summer” was discussed amongst 4Chan message board users and far-right Telegram channels and, ultimately, how the meme ended up becoming commodified. Further, Davis explains how the vaporwave aesthetic is used by fascists and the most common aesthetics of far-right memes. As far-right groups attempt to incite violence and organize in-person rallies, Davis discusses how the likeness of mainstream figures like Tucker Carlson and Mark McCloskey are used by far-right groups to help radicalize people. What can people do to stay vigilant of extremism, and why should we listen to experts?
You can read Robert Evans’ and Davis’ White Boy Summer, Nazi Memes, and the Mainstreaming of White Supremacist Violence on Bellingcat.
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Resources mentioned on this episode:
Ali Breland - Twitter Finally Bans Nick Fuentes
Chet Hanks - White Boy Summer
Digital Void Podcast: Grafton Tanner “The Circle of the Snake”
Grafton Tanner - Babbling Corpse
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PhD Candidate in Cultural Analysis & Theory, artist, educator, and founder of Vital Thought, Emily Gillcrist, shows us how the 2008 recession led to universities devaluing the humanities — and how Vital Thought is working to make the critical humanities accessible to everyone.
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In the second of a special three-part series, Jamie and Josh explore how the rise of citizen journalism combined with toxic troll culture gave rise to reaction reactionaries: The people who profit most from reacting to other people’s reactions. Rooted in digital technology’s infrastructure and libertarian ideology, they explore how identity, language, and irony were leveraged to create an army of culture warriors. From Chan culture to John Perry Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, they explore how we arrived in an environment where targeted harassment campaigns have become the norm.
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Host of the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast and writer Paris Marx joins us to critically examine Silicon Valley’s approach to the gig economy and labor, what California’s Prop 22 could mean for the future of work, the outsourced, exploited, and hidden labor behind new robots and surveillance technologies, and approaches to worker solidarity.
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In the first of a special three-part series, Jamie and Josh explore how "mainstream media" became a pejorative term through the convergence of the narrative structure of reality television, early-YouTube web series, Gamergate, professional wrestling, and the false victimhood narratives created by influencers with millions of followers.
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Feels Good Man filmmakers Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini discuss how they told the story of Pepe The Frog from Boys Club to misappropriation by the far-right after the 2016 election, what it meant for Pepe the Frog to enter the U.S. Capitol building, and why we need to broaden the scope of our conversations around NFTs and digital art.
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Tom Syverson, author of Reality Squared: On Reality TV and Left Politics, explores how reality television shapes our social and political lives, and explains how we can confront today’s postmodern condition.
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Jamie and Josh explore Tucker Carlson's targeted harassment campaign against Taylor Lorenz and his cycle of creating mainstream boogeymen, a brief history of digital culture journalism and why it's essential, and leveling power so we can all negotiate meaning, together.
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Artist, curator, and author of Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell explores the relationship between gender, technology, and identity, finding liberation through the glitch, the complex history of virality, and her forthcoming book, Black Meme.
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Cultural theorist, CyberPsychologist, and marketing strategist Matt Klein discusses the most frequently reported cultural trends for 2021, explores how the momfluencer aesthetic is being used as a gateway to QAnon and other widely believed conspiracies, and calls for a Rosetta Stone for Generation Z to help different generations understand the emotionally affective features of memes.
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Creative, futurist, and mad scientist Lucas Rizzotto explains how he's building the future through augmented and virtual reality, looks at how people can get started creating their own AR, VR, and MR projects, and explores how AR helps us reclaim what we already possessed as children.
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Educator, musician, Classics PhD and first-year law student, Brett Wisniewski joins us to discuss how our language isn’t always able to meet the challenge of describing our social reality, the difficulties pre-digital institutions face in a digital media environment, and the forms of human expression that lay outside of commodified spaces.
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All Tech is Human founder, TikTok Content Advisory Council member, speaker, and writer David Ryan Polgar explores how he’s connecting the dots between individuals, industries, and universities to build the responsible tech pipeline. Polgar explains how we can create a diverse, inclusive, and healthy tech ecosystem to tackle the thorniest issues facing us today. From Section 230 to the storming of the U.S. Capitol, nothing is outside of digital tech — and it’s up to humans to create a responsible tech future.
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Principal of Bread and Roses Digital and Executive Council at Campaign Workers Guild Aidan Kingshares his journey as a digital strategist from founding r/SandersforPresident in 2013 to launching Bread and Roses Digital, a democratically-owned digital agency working to support leftist causes, organizations, candidates, and nonprofits.
King explores productive ways to battle conspiracy theories that fuel so much of popular discourse, what people can do to push through the noise of trolls, and the biggest challenges facing electoral politics today.
Intelligent Mischief Founder and Creative Director Terry Marshall and Artistic Director Aisha Shillingford explain how they've successfully integrated satire into their civic media projects. How can we begin to address institutional injustice and tragedy when reality is absurd? Further, Marshall and Shillingford explain Nation X, their massive multi-platform immersive story world, and show how fiction can create a new reality that benefits humans.
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How does QAnon evolve after President Biden's inauguration? What does the GOP's embrace of QAnon supporters mean for the future of the party? How did YouTube's algorithm change in 2014 create a community of pseudo-experts that altered objective reality? Jamie and Josh explore how a lack of agency is central to conspiracy theories, the commodification of extremism and nostalgia, and the fictions that bookend the last half-decade of electoral politics in the United States.
Director of Curiouoser Institute and writer of, "A Game Designer's Analysis of QAnon," Reed Berkowitz explains how QAnon is similar to an experience fiction (XF) game — and how the designers of QAnon created a game that plays people. Further, Berkowitz explains his experience designing XF games, how people look for patterns where patterns don't exist, and how Q evolves from one platform to another.
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Journalist and author of "Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us," David Neiwert explains how the process of learning on digital platforms enables people to become radicalized and fall into conspiracy thinking, the limits of conspiracies, and how we can begin to address a national crisis.
In his opening monologue, Jamie explains how the insurrectionists that sieged the U.S. Capitol building did everything for the clout of the message boards their movement started on — and the danger that lies ahead.
What is behind the Trump God Emperor meme, and how can we use it to interpret the grief that his supporters are feeling in the wake of an electoral defeat? How does Pepe the Frog represent Trump supporters in popular memes and artwork ahead of "Trump's Last Stand" on January 6? A look at how authentic and organic memes fuel movements and help win elections, and the implications of corporate memes on electoral politics.
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Media theorist Raphael Zaki and Dr. Jamie Cohen discuss whether each generation discusses the same memes in different cultural environments. From the Satanic Panic of the 1980s to Qanon today, Raphael and Jamie explore fascism, memes, and the occult.
Resources:
QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic
Award-winning author and CNN contributor Michael D'Antonio explores what comes next for the United States at the borderlands of media, internet, and politics. How do we coexist in a country so deeply divided by big tech?
This conversation was recorded live on December 9, 2020 in partnership with Civic Hall, as part of the Digital Void Salon Series. Click here to access the archived event video.
Author of "The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech," Grafton Tanner explains how big tech’s predictive algorithms are locking us in nostalgic feedback loops and envisions a more radical nostalgia that serves the needs of the many, not just the privileged.
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Investor, start-up advisor, yoga instructor, and host of the “Look Up!” Podcast, Marc Weinstein shares strategies for us to consider how to balance a digital environment with mindfulness and spirituality, looks at the empowering potential of cryptocurrency and digital art, and the importance of true gratitude for others. This conversation was recorded a day before the 2020 US Presidential Election.
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How did Covington High School student Nick Sandmann’s vilification by mainstream media outlets help to create a narrative that allowed for the glorification of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse? How can we understand historical memes and their context in perpetuating an extremist ideology, and what role does Facebook play in it? What are ways for us to connect over shared human values when we’re so deeply siloed into our digital communities?
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Dr. Jamie Cohen explains how QANON tricks people into believing they are participating in civic behavior, why The Grover House explains the internet's structural issues, and how to have conversations with people who have been radicalized.
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CEO & Founder of The Plug Sherrell Dorsey joins us to discuss how understanding traditionally marginalized histories helps bring people closer together, the importance in finding joy in work and its centrality to our collective success, and what we can all do to help support each other during our current crises.
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Anthony Padilla joins us to discuss his evolution from Smosh to creating his hit YouTube series, "I spent a day with..." Here, Padilla reveals how he learned to take conversations with misunderstood and misrepresented communities seriously and describes how he's contributing to a positive change in how YouTube's algorithm works. Plus, Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine discuss the early-YouTube environment that Smosh grew to fame in.
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Gunn Enli is the author of Mediated Authenticity: How the Media Constructs Reality and a professor of media studies at the University of Oslo. Enli discusses the paradox of mediated authenticity, why anti-establishment attitudes can appear to be more authentic than attitudes that align with accepted standards of a particular time, and challenges moralistic stances about how populism spreads.
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How have Instagram's corporate decisions changed the way people interact with the world? What are the ways Instagram serves as a lens into contemporary society? What's behind the social media platform's battle for attention? How can we weigh the decisions of a corporation to better understand the environment is creates?
Sarah Frieris the author of "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" and a reporter covering social media for Bloomberg.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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Where are occult themes hidden in everyday discourse, culture, and media? How did writers like Norman Vincent Peale influence President Donald Trump? Which famous esoteric and occult writers influence contemporary political strategies?
Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. He is a 2020 writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The
Miracle Club.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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New York Assemblyman Ron Kim discusses how he's working to create a decentralized, equitable, and secure way for people to exchange value that has gone untapped for centuries. How would the Inclusive Value Ledger empower people during this moment? Plus, Kim looks at effective ways for an elected official to communicate with the public in a media environment that favors disinformation.
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Joining the Digital Void Podcast today, NYU Vice Provost, Professor of Media Studies, and author of "Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter," Dr. Charlton McIlwain.
How did big tech become an engine for inequality? What are the limits and possibilities for using technology to push racial justice?
This discussion was recorded live on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. You can view the full archived livestream of this podcast on YouTube.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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Joining the Digital Void Podcast Today, BEACON founder and author of “Automating Humanity” Joe Toscano.
Joe and Dr. Jamie Cohen look at how people protect themselves and their data. What are ways technology can work for human interest, instead of against it? How can we imagine a better future through technology?
Joe Toscanois an award-winning experience designer, international speaker, founder of BEACON and author of “Automating Humanity."
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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Dr. André Brock Jr, author of Distributed Blackness, discusses how issues of race and ethnicity are inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States and how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity.
This discussion was streamed live on YouTube on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.
Dr. André Brock, Jris the author of Distributed Blackness and an Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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ReadUp CEO & Co-Founder Bill Loundy discusses how ReadUp incentivizes deep reading in order to create a healthy digital community. How can a social media platform can work for humans, instead of humans working to serve the needs of a platform?
This discussion was streamed live on YouTube on Wednesday, April 29, 2020.
Bill Loundy is the CEO and co-founder ofReadup, the world's first digital platform that incentivizes deep reading and thoughtful, meaningful human interactions.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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This week, Real Life Mag editor in chief & author of Verso Books' "The Social Photo" Nathan Jurgenson and Dr. Jamie Cohen explore identity during a pandemic. How do we view our physical selves in relation to our digital identities? What effect does Covid-19 have on the convergence of the two? What ethical considerations should we account for when migrating the majority of our work to digital spaces?
This discussion was streamed live on YouTube on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.
Nathan Jurgenson is the author of The Social Photo, Editor in Chief of Real Life Mag, and Founder of the Theorizing the Webconference.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the host of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches and writes about digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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Buzzfeed Senior reporter Ryan Broderick, The Verge reporter Julia Alexander, and digital media culture expert Dr. Jamie Cohen take a deep dive into the ongoing battle between streaming companies like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ as they battle for our attention, look at the consequences of what declining advertising rates mean for content creators on YouTube at a time when more people than ever are consuming content, and consider how human connection may fuel our interaction with digital platforms — and not the content itself.
This discussion was streamed live on YouTube on Wednesday, April 15, 2020.
Ryan Broderick is a senior reporter at Buzzfeed News
Julia Alexanderis a reporter at The Verge.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the host of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches and writes about digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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Marvel Comics writer Leah Williams and Dr. Cohen discuss the writing process of meta texts, incorporating fan feedback into official canon, representing marginalized voices, and a writer's responsibility to their audience.
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Mentioned in this show:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/how-the-west-was-lost/502850/
https://www.marvel.com/comics/series/27288/gwenpool_strikes_back_2019_-_present
https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comics/series/140500/age-of-x-man-x-tremists
Williams' new series "X-Factor" returns this April:
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/this-april-x-factor-returns
Leah Williams is a Marvel Comics Writer of X-Factor, Gwenpool Strikes Back, Amazing Mary Jane.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Salon Series. He researches and writes about digital media and political communication.
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How do we talk about digital disinformation when its systems are opaque? How can populations be ready to defend themselves from memetic and information warfare when it comes from both international as well as domestic agents?
Protocol senior report Issie Lapowsky joins Dr. Jamie Cohen for a conversation about what it means to talk about disinformation in an election year, look back at the types of memetic and information warfare that occurred on social media platforms in 2016, what's happened since, and what people can do to defend themselves now.
In his opening monologue, Josh Chapdelaine discusses the complexities of how authenticity is measured in the digital media environment and looks at the history of new media technologies leaving content producers in a position to exploit vulnerable audiences.
You can read Lapowsky's latest work at Protocol: https://www.protocol.com/u/issielapowsky
About
Issie Lapowsky is a senior reporter at Protocol, covering the intersection of technology, politics, and national affairs. Previously, she was a senior writer at Wired, where she covered the 2016 election and the Facebook beat in its aftermath. Prior to that, Issie worked as a staff writer for Inc. magazine, writing about small business and entrepreneurship. She has also worked as an on-air contributor for CBS News and taught a graduate-level course at New York University’s Center for Publishing on how tech giants have affected publishing.
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaineis the co-producer of the Digital Void Salon Series. He researches and writes about digital media and political communication.
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This episode was taped in front of a live audience at Civic Hall.
Civic Hall is a non-profit center for learning, collaboration, and technology for the public good. At Civic Hall, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, government staff, community organizers, philanthropists, software developers, data scientists, and media makers come together to share knowledge and solve pressing public interest problems.
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