🎉 Announcing: The Meme in the Moment Festival Ticket News
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🎇 The Meme in the Moment Festival Tickets Available To Everyone: Free or Paid!
Digital Void is an internet literacies collective dedicated to creating a healthier internet.
It’s our mission to create events that grant access to critical and empowering conversations and education about digital media, technology, and culture.
Since August 2021, we’ve partnered with Caveat in New York City to produce The Meme in the Moment Festival. We’ve been privileged to feature academics, authors, comedians, content creators, journalists, podcasters, and strategists at our events.
Now it’s time for us to evolve.
The Meme in the Moment Festival 2023 will be our final festival at Caveat in New York City!
As a thank you to everyone who made us successful during our 2.5 years at Caveat, we’ve made a large block of tickets for The Meme in the Moment Festival 2023 available free of charge!
It was our original goal to make low-to-no-cost events possible. We’re fortunate to be able to achieve our goal for our final festival of the year.
You can still purchase a ticket if you wish to support our work, but we also invite you to join us to celebrate the conclusion of The Meme in the Moment Festival at Caveat.
Come out and join us on Thursday, December 14 at 7:00 PM for a festival focused on visions for a better internet. You’ll be able to experience world-class presentations, panels, a surprise conclusion to the show, and time to socialize immediately following!
To clarify: Digital Void will continue in all forms following this festival. This is not the end of Digital Void.
🔥 The Meme in The Moment Festival Speaker Lineup Features…
✨ 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.
✨ Kate Lindsay is the co-founder and writer of the internet culture newsletter Embedded. Lindsay’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Verge, GQ, Bustle, and Vulture.
✨ 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.
✨ 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.