I'm a technologist & Internet researcher studying the spread of information and ideas online. I co-created the Know Your Meme video series & Internet meme database, selected as one of TIME Magazine's Top 50 websites of 2009. I'm also a founding member of the Free Art & Technology Lab (FAT), an open-source research & development group.
In 2007 and 2008 I taught the Internet Famous Class at Parsons, where your grade depends on your online popularity. More...
Selected press:
NBC,
TIME [2],
NYTimes,
CurrentTV,
Gawker,
BuzzFeed
,
ArtNews
posts tagged 'internet'
“For when LOL just doesn’t cut it.”
Printed on high-quality Apparelle Americaine from the FFFFF.AT T-shirt Shoppe
One in my ongoing series of internets t-shirts. See also:
x-posted from fffff.at
“Go forth America… and get your fame on.”
Aired on WNBC on Feb. 19th, 2008
Check some behind the scenes photos
Props to interviewed students ShannonEmigh.com and DanProvost.com
p.s. we <3 Obama girl
Time traveling technology developed for Jamie O’Shea’s 3:2 Project, during which he will artificially experience 3 minutes for every 2.
oshea-time – source code (ruby)
C’mon gang, can’t we just keep it on the net?

Stacey Sparkles from ‘Mississauga’, shame on you [og]

SomethingLeet forum member as “MySpace Whore”, shame on you. Points for quality though. [og]

CHIEF GOTSE, sir, shame. [og]

Brad Fitzpatrick, inventor of LiveJournal, extra shame on you [og]

OMG! Awesome Party Guy Vid! with 33k views, the clear “winner”... shame on you [og]

Marie Eve Bergeron-Tourangeau from Canada, shame on you, [og]

iPhone bois, shame on yous [og]

Apple ads, you have no shame [og]