Why You Need to Be Tuned Into Your Kids Meme Habits

Children will encounter memes and internet content more often than you think — the stakes are too high to ignore the conversation

If you get the meme, you get it, if you don’t, learn it, because your kids know it.

On Wednesday, parents in several states opened their Seesaw app to find one of the most infamous and disturbing images on the internet. Potentially thousands of users saw the image when they clicked on the disguised bitly link or saw it previewed…

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Digital culture expert and meme scholar. Cultural and Media Studies PhD. Internet studies educator: social good, civic engagement and digital literacies

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Jamie Cohen

Digital culture expert and meme scholar. Cultural and Media Studies PhD. Internet studies educator: social good, civic engagement and digital literacies