FIDM Online Lecture Series: The Future of Social Media

MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, TikTok. Social media platforms — some dominate, others fade, and new ones continue to emerge on the market. Our experts will dive into the love/hate relationship with social media and how one move by Apple this Fall could potentially disrupt the industry into the future.
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Special guests include:

Corianda Dimes | Strategy Director, Social Strategy Lead at TBWA\Chiat\Day
Corianda Dimes is a Strategy Director at creative agency TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles. Since graduating from the University of Southern California, her career has spanned social media, influencer, brand and creative strategy. At Chiat\Day, she acts as Social Strategy Lead shaping the agency's social and digital discipline and works on furthering DEI and cultural initiatives. Quarantine hobbies include baking sourdough, Dungeons & Dragons, and doomscrolling.

Jessica Potts | VP of Digital + e-Commerce, We're Not Really Strangers

Alan Chow | TikTok Content Creator
Alan Chikin Chow is a creator and actor who has amassed over 3 million followers online. Best known for his comedy skits that center on universally relatable moments and global pop culture, Alan's mission is to unite audiences of all backgrounds through laughter. Alan is a 2020 TikTok Ambassador and has worked with brands such as Reese's Puffs, DoorDash, Adobe, and Universal Music/Alicia Keys. As an actor, Alan has appeared in projects such as ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Hulu's Into the Dark, and the CBS multi-cam pilot The Emperor of Malibu starring Ken Jeong. And yes, Alan's middle name is actually Chikin.

About Your Host, Tom Henkenius: Tom is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, director of FIDM’s Bachelor of Arts degree in digital marketing and principal partner at Thunder Communications, a content production company. Tom spent 10 years as a television news journalist after graduating from USC Annenberg. Tom holds a Master's of Science from USC's Iovine and Young Academy in Integrated Design, Business and Technology.

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