In an insanely challenging year, many have found joy in an uncommon place: the internet. From skateboarding while drinking cranberry juice to 鈥淩ate My Zoom Room鈥� twitter accounts, content creators and regular folks have found ways to get creative online.
This hour on Disrupted, we talk about this phenomena and the growth of Tik Tok. We also hear about how joy can be an act of resistance; and, how we can incorporate play into the monotony of pandemic life.
GUESTS:
Rebecca Jennings 鈥� a reporter with VOX covering internet culture
David Dennis, Jr. 鈥� Writer, Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Morehouse College and author of
Ian Bogost 鈥� Contributing writer at The Atlantic, Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of 鈥淧lay Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, The Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games鈥�
Viral Moments of 2020:
- Nathan Apodaca鈥檚
- 鈥淏linding Lights鈥�
- Cottage Core
- Among Us and
- Leslie Jones
- Rate Your Zoom/Skype
- Korean Dad
- and 鈥淚s it cake?鈥�
