About this Event
📱Do you ever worry about how you come across online? Before the internet, you could outgrow yourself in peace. The bad joke, the questionable outfit, the opinion you swore by at 22—most of it disappeared when you left the room. Today, our past selves follow us everywhere: archived, searchable, shareable, and always one screenshot away from becoming someone else's content. 🤯
The Self We Post explores what happens when being human leaves a permanent digital record. From virality and digital permanence to the identities we carefully curate online, this talk examines how social media hasn't simply changed where we communicate—it has changed how we construct identity, find community, perform for one another, and even remember our own lives.
Drawing on her qualitative research on how people live online, Joyce-Zoë Farley asks a deceptively simple question: What happens to who we become when the internet never forgets who we used to be?
This might be for you if you...
- Are intrigued by the psychological effects of the digital world (including human development)
- Are curious about the intersection of social media and mental health
- Enjoy lecture-based and conversation-focused events of any kind — think Ted Talks in bars, Lectures on Tap, or micro learning meets dinner party
- Want to switch up your usual weeknight. Why not make it interesting? 🤓
AGENDA
6:00 PM: Doors Open
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM: Grab a Drink!
6:30 PM - 7:15 PM: Lecture Begins
7:15 PM - 7:30 PM: Q&A
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Meet the Speaker & Mingle
Joyce-Zoë A. Farley, Ph.D., is a scholar, documentary filmmaker, and cultural commentator whose work explores the intersections of race, media, history, and culture. A former major-market journalist, she reported and produced across television, print, digital, and wire news organizations nationwide. She founded BlackPrint Production House, an independent media production company and oral history repository, and her documentary work has screened at the Detroit Black Film Festival, where it won a Laurel Wreath, and at the 313 Film Festival. A Vartan Gregorian Scholar at the New York Public Library, she holds a Ph.D. in African American and African Studies from Michigan State University and an M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Gin Mill, 442 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States
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