Hi! My name is Jamie Cohen and I am a digital culture expert as well as a writer, speaker, educator, and digital media producer.
I hold a PhD in Cultural and Media Studies specializing in memes and digital culture and I am an assistant professor at CUNY Queens College where I teach Digital Activism, Social Media, Aesthetics and Advertising Inequalities.
The big things: ☼ Passionate about media literacy and internet literacy. ☼ There is no online and offline duality, it all overlaps. ☼ I’ve studied digital culture since 2006. My masters focused on YouTube, my PhD focused on tech, internet culture, and memes. ☼ In 2013, I founded and directed an internet studies college degree (New Media) at Molloy U. ☼ I strongly belief in transformative education, especially on study away travel. I’m most proud of my years in Italy with the Hofstra in Rome program. ☼ Head of Education of Digital Void, an internet literacies project that features live shows, workshops, and a podcast. ☼ I’m also a contributor for Forbes, covering digital media and internet culture.
I enjoy sharing what I’ve learned and empowering others to think critically and optimistically about the hyper-mediated world around us.
Curiosity. Exploration. Action
Merging my previous experiences of television production, service industry, and education, I deploy most of my scholarly work pedagogically. I provide background, context, color and narrative to the wildly changing media environments that sit on either side of the digital interface.
Expert in Memes, Digital Culture, and Digital Media; Academic Source
Invited Talks: Google, the WHO, the FBI, Trust & Safety Collective, PERIL at American University, Canadian Consulate of NY, Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, Emerson College, Nevada State College
Offered insights to: New York Times, RTL Nieuws, Digital Fairy, Society, Asahi Shimbun, China Daily Hong Kong, The Verge, CNN, Reddit, Messenger, Washington Post, Junior Scholastic, Time, WGN NewsNation, PictureStart, GQ, USA Today, ABC SF, Fox News, Inside Edition, Summer Friday, Forbes, Vice, Funny As Tech, Team Human
Award Winning Educator and International Speaker
Fellow and Faculty, Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Fellow, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Advisory Board Member of the Fair Media Council
Advisory Board Member of the Tech Incubator at Queens College
Long Island Business News 40 Under 40 and Who's Who in Education
Program Founder and Director
Founder: The New Media Program (major and minor) at Molloy College, an interdisciplinary bachelor of science degree
Co-founder: Game Studies BS Degree, Molloy College
Co-founder: Baldwin HS New Media Academy
Founder: HTVinteractive, Herbert School of Comm, Hofstra
Developer/Consultant: Vertical Video Lab, Herbert School of Comm, Hofstra
Connecting Community
I pride myself on being more than an academic in a classroom. Along with the Digital Void Project and teaching for Vital Thought, my goal is to connect with the community and work with others to make sense of this era in flux.
