Jonny Sun and Jonathan Zittrain on Joke Tweets, Memes, and Being an Alien Online

Published: June 30, 2017, 3:41 p.m.

b'Join Jonny Sun, the author of the popular Twitter account @jonnysun, for a conversation in celebration of his new book \\u201ceveryone\\u2019s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too\\u201d by jomny sun (the aliebn). This debut illustrated book is the unforgettable story of a lost, lonely, and confused alien finding friendship, acceptance, and love among the creatures of Earth. Constructed from many of Jonny\\u2019s re-contextualized tweets, the book is also a creative thesis on the narrative formats of social media, and a defense of the humanity-fulfilling aspects of social media born out of his experiences on Twitter. \\n\\nAbout Jonny\\nJonathan Sun is the author behind @jonnysun. When he isn\\u2019t tweeting, he is an architect, designer, engineer, artist, playwright and comedy writer. His work across multiple disciplines broadly addresses narratives of human experience. As a playwright, Jonathan\\u2019s work has been performed at the Yale School of Drama, and in Toronto at Hart House Theater and Factory Theater. As an artist and illustrator, his work has been exhibited at MIT, Yale, New Haven ArtSpace, and the University of Toronto. His work has been appeared on NPR, Buzzfeed, Playboy, GQ, and McSweeney\\u2019s. In his other life, he is a doctoral student at MIT and Berkman Klein fellow at Harvard.\\n\\nAbout Jonathan\\nJonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.\\n\\nFor more on this discussion visit:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/06/Sun'