🔥 A Special Announcement About The Meme in the Moment Festival!
🎉 Open this email to reveal a new speaker for our NYC return on Dec. 14!
Kate Lindsay Joins The Meme in the Moment Festival 2023 Lineup!
We’re thrilled to announce Kate Lindsay, co-founder and writer of the internet culture newsletter Embedded, will be speaking at The Meme in the Moment Festival 2023 on Thursday, December 14, at Caveat in New York City!
Lindsay’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Verge, GQ, Bustle, and Vulture.
This year, Lindsay has written about how people linger as digital ghosts after they die, how the leave a parasocial relationship, and why millennial meme marketing must end.
Join us in-person or virtually on Thursday, December 14, at 7:00 PM ET live at Caveat in New York City!
🔥 Featuring this incredible speaker lineup…
✨ CT Jones is a Culture Writer at Rolling Stone, where they cover the creator economy, internet trends, entertainment and health misinformation. Before joining Rolling Stone, CT was a freelance culture writer and breaking news reporter. Their work has appeared in MEL Magazine, CBS News, Vox, Vulture, and more.
✨ Kat Tenbarge is an award-winning tech and culture reporter for NBC News Digital.
✨ Kelsey Russell, the media literate hottie, 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.
✨ 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.
✨ Jenny Chang is an independent writer, brand strategist, and cultural theorist, known in the strategy community for her PowerPoint essays deconstructing pop culture phenomena and translating them into compelling, culturally fluent narratives. Her work aims to make both pop culture and academic analysis more accessible, and improve media literacy around internet culture.
✨ Dr. Jamie Cohen is the Head of Education at Digital Void, a digital culture expert, writer, speaker, educator, and producer. He founded a college degree in internet studies, wrote a textbook on the subject and is the co-author of the first peer reviewed paper on Pepe the Frog.
You can purchase tickets for The Meme in the Moment Festival for $15 until December 7. A livestream of the event is available for $5.
What is The Meme in the Moment Festival?
Digital Void’s The Meme in the Moment Festival is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers. We bringing together academics, creators, comics, journalists, podcasters, and strategists, to discuss the ways digital media, culture, and technology influence our lives.
We’ve hosted more than 10 festivals and 30 speakers in cities including New York City, London, and Washington DC. Our mission is to make access to education and information about the internet accessible for everyone.
Whether you’re a longtime supporter or someone who has not been able to attend we hope to see you in December for a night of inquiry about how we shape the internet — and how it shapes us.