MIT Humor Series: dog_rates in conversation with jonnysun
When:
Wednesday, Apr 19, 2017 5:00p -
6:30p
Wednesday, Apr 19, 2017 5:00p -
6:30p
Where:
MIT Media Lab
75 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/203934820108043
The creator behind the wildly popular Twitter account @dog_rates (over 1.5M followers) sits down with MIT PhD student and internet comedian @jonnysun to discuss the process behind creating online content, the "Wholesome Humor" movement, the universal appeal of dogs, remix culture, the legitimacy of creative work on the internet, humor's role in political discourse, countering negative speech, and more. Moderated by Susan Benesch.
Free and open to the public. Please note that RSVP-ing does not guarantee entry and that seating is on a first-come-first-served basis.
5:00pm-6:30pm. MIT Media Lab, E14 Lecture Hall (E14-633) on the sixth floor. 75 Amherst St, Cambridge.
This event will be live-streamed through Periscope at @MITHumorSeries.
Generously funded by the MIT De Florez Fund for Humor, in association with the MIT Media Lab's Center for Civic Media, and co-sponsored by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
twitter.com/MITHumorSeries
jomnysun.com/series
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ABOUT OUR GUESTS
MATT NELSON, the online humorist behind the wildly popular @dog_rates, joined Twitter in 2014, and quickly began to combine two of the hottest things on the Internet: dogs and humor. In late 2015, as a teenager, he started WeRateDogs, a Twitter account that changed the game when it came to the "cute" account genre, focusing on unique and hilarious captions to accompany dog pictures. Now, @dog_rates has over 1.7 million followers on Twitter, a shop for t-shirts and hats, a new app (@GoodDogsGame), and a forthcoming book in October 2017. Nelson, 20, studies Professional Golf Management when he’s not rating dogs, and lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
JONNY SUN is the author behind @jonnysun. As a Twitter comedian, he has over 400,000 followers to date, and has appeared in NPR, BuzzFeed, Playboy, GQ, and McSweeney’s. His past and present lives include: architect, designer, engineer, artist, playwright and comedy writer. He is currently a doctoral student at MIT and a Berkman Klein Fellow at Harvard, where he studies humor and online place-making. His first book, “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” (HarperPerennial) comes out in June 2017.
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Upcoming MIT HUMOR SERIES events:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19. Matt Nelson (@dog_rates), in conversation with Jonny Sun (@jonnysun). On cuteness, dogs, and humor in online discourse. 5:00-6:30pm. MIT Media Lab. E14-633.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. Kambiz Hosseini, in conversation with Simin Kargar. Humor as a tool for resisting an authoritarian government. Moderated by Jonny Sun. 5-6:30pm. MIT Media Lab. E14-633.
MONDAY, MAY 15. Nathan Zed (@nathanzed), in conversation with Kishonna Gray. Moderated by Jonny Sun. 5-6:30pm. MIT Media Lab. E14-633.
All events are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come-first-served basis.
twitter.com/MITHumorSeries
facebook.com/MITHumorSeries
jomnysun.com/series
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