Jamie Cohen

@jamesncohen.com

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Be Curious and Persist Assoc Prof Media Studies CUNY QC. Phd in memes and digital culture. Critical Internet Literacies out now!

Left to right: Michael Girard, Susan Amkraut, Deborah Gibson, Timothy Leary, Eric Gullichsen and William Gibson at Parque Guell (Gaudi's masterpiece). Barcelona, January 1990.
Sticking your head in cyberspace section by Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly, Whole Earth Review, Summer 1989, pages 84-89
Whole Earth Redux: New Perspectives of the Whole Earth Legacy
Wall street journal article with the headline Meta Fired Palmer Luckey Now they’re teaming up on a defense contract. Features an image of Palmer luckey who is wearing cargo shorts and Hawaiian shirt with an army jacket standing next to mark Zuckerberg who is westing a white shirt and jeans. Both are smiling thinking about all the people they’re gonna remotely detonate
screengrab from amazon showing versions of my book, 2020, 2015, and 1655
Three books: character limit: how Elon musk destroyed twitter by Kate conger and Ryan Mac, men who hate women by Laura Bates and Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
Photo of a newspaper with the headline US Military bans men with girl names from combat. Print publication: the onion
An illustration of a man dressed in western wear riding a horse. The bubble caption says "The world is cruel, therefore I won't be."
The absurdity of this all is evident in Congress’ practically overnight reversal on the issue just before the ban, amid public backlash. How serious could the threat have been if they folded instantly? Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who voted for the law, pled with Biden to delay the ban. In my view, anyone who did not anticipate the TikTok ban would, uh, tick people off, should not be in politics. But they are, and that raises an interesting question: If governments can’t even understand their own public, should we really be so worried about attempts by governments to influence foreign audiences they know even less about?
Screenshot from millennial_republicans instagram account featuring an ai image of a snowy highway and an led roadside message stating “America is back Jan twentieth 2025 with an American flag in the foreground
Willie Cole - Sunflower (1994) artwork. Irons on canvas
Doge
Cover of the book Critical Internet Literacies by Jamie Cohen featuring an image of a woman recording a vlog
Small brown cool ass frog on a rock