About this Event
We tend to think of social media as something that happened to us. But the feeds we scroll every day were designed, and their history reveals a lot about how we got here.
In this October installment of the Clark County Historical Museum Speaker Series, Kayla Anderson traces the evolution of the social media feed, from the early web's problem of clicking from page to page, to the invention of infinite scroll, to the moment platforms realized that a feed with no bottom is a feed you never leave.
Following two decades of platform evolution into today's AI-generated internet, Kayla explores how the systems we use to communicate, discover information, and entertain ourselves were built, and asks the question we're now beginning to grapple with:
What do we want this thing to be next?
About the Speaker
Kayla Anderson is the Founder and CEO of Riparian Media, a full-service creative agency based in Vancouver, Washington. She has been making content professionally since 2018, with a background in climate science communication that earned recognition from Harvard's C-CHANGE as a "Climate Creator to Watch."
Since founding Riparian in 2022, she has built an agency serving organizations across the region, helping them figure out what to say and where to say it. She has spent most of her career watching social media platforms rise, mutate, and occasionally collapse, usually in real time.
Event Details
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Doors: 6:00 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Fort Vancouver Visitor Center
1501 E Evergreen Blvd
Vancouver, WA 98661
Admission is FREE.
This program is presented as part of the Clark County Historical Museum Speaker Series in special partnership with Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and the National Park Service. Through this special partnership, admission is free to the public.
Sponsors: Clark County Historic Preservation Commission
Media Sponsor: The Columbian
Special Partnership: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, National Park Service
Registration required.
Event venue & nearby stays
Fort Vancouver Visitor Center, 1501 East Evergreen Boulevard, Vancouver, United States
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