art & media
insight, analysis and theory
Carson McKee
Digital culture is moving faster than most people can make sense of it. That’s where I come in.
I'm a digital culture analyst and media theorist. I research how memes encode behavior, how algorithms reshape attention and how new media forms collapse the frameworks we use to understand communication, identity and power.
I've been inside every major shift in digital culture, not as an observer, but as a participant.
I wrote my first programs in BASIC on a Commodore Vic20. I discovered the web through Netscape while studying Intermedia in art school, when digital experimentation was still a fringe idea. I built strategy for brands during the Web2 marketing boom. I tracked the speculative creativity of Web3 in real time. Now, in the AI era, I work as an educator and media theorist making sense of what all of this means and what comes next.
A student in Web1. A practitioner in Web2. An educator in Web3. A theorist in the AI era.
I speak about digital culture for organizations navigating what comes next.
Keynotes, guest lectures, workshops, and advisory sessions — built for audiences who need frameworks, not trend reports. Topics include protocol aesthetics, meme systems, AI-era production, and the collapse of traditional media logic.
After The Interface on Substack
I've spent a career in marketing, media theory and education. Now I'm giving away the playbooks that most people paywall. Applied media theory will help you see what others don't, so you can do what others can't.