Nick Feldman- PB1B
Nick Feldman
A lot people love memes. I love memes. They are funny, make people laugh, and they are very creative. However, some people don't understand the meaning of memes. You take a picture of something you write some words down and supposed to be funny and make you laugh. The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads; Internet memes are a subset of this general meme concept specific to the culture and environment of the internet. Memes are viral curiosities that spread through hyperlinks and email. They are modern cultural artifacts that become famous through 'social infection'. These meme curiosities are usually absurd humor photos and curios videos, but memes can also have deep political and cultural undertones. If you happen to have a comical photo of your friends in unflattering poses, then you can have some fun at their expense by posting online it as a captioned meme. Ideally, you'll demonstrate good taste when you caption your friends' pictures, but either way, it is very possible to give your pals a good ribbing through the Web. If you look at the meme above its a picture of a cat wearing glasses and looks to be in a chemistry class. The meme says “Once I told a chemistry joke, there was no reaction.” The meme is a chemistry joke because sometimes in chemistry there are no reactions and the cat is used as a person trying to be smart. Now why use this meme. For instance, it is eye catching, its creative thoughts in humorous colors, and the most important it is easy to create and was fun. A tenable genre development of Internet memes is introduced in three categories to describe memetic transformation: spreadable media, emergent meme, and meme. We argue that memes are remixed, iterated messages which are rapidly spread by members of participatory digital culture for the purpose of continuing a conversation. We understand that memes develop from emergent memes, which we define as altered or remixed spreadable media. We have adapted and modified Jenkins’ term “spreadable media” to refer to original or non-parodied messages. Our analysis benefits from the inclusion of Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory to aid in understanding how memes as artifacts of participatory digital culture are created. Our genre development of memes demonstrates the generative capacity for continued memetic transformation and for participation among members of digital culture. We use structuration to position these dynamic components as the core of a duality of structure for Internet memes.
A lot people love memes. I love memes. They are funny, make people laugh, and they are very creative. However, some people don't understand the meaning of memes. You take a picture of something you write some words down and supposed to be funny and make you laugh. The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads; Internet memes are a subset of this general meme concept specific to the culture and environment of the internet. Memes are viral curiosities that spread through hyperlinks and email. They are modern cultural artifacts that become famous through 'social infection'. These meme curiosities are usually absurd humor photos and curios videos, but memes can also have deep political and cultural undertones. If you happen to have a comical photo of your friends in unflattering poses, then you can have some fun at their expense by posting online it as a captioned meme. Ideally, you'll demonstrate good taste when you caption your friends' pictures, but either way, it is very possible to give your pals a good ribbing through the Web. If you look at the meme above its a picture of a cat wearing glasses and looks to be in a chemistry class. The meme says “Once I told a chemistry joke, there was no reaction.” The meme is a chemistry joke because sometimes in chemistry there are no reactions and the cat is used as a person trying to be smart. Now why use this meme. For instance, it is eye catching, its creative thoughts in humorous colors, and the most important it is easy to create and was fun. A tenable genre development of Internet memes is introduced in three categories to describe memetic transformation: spreadable media, emergent meme, and meme. We argue that memes are remixed, iterated messages which are rapidly spread by members of participatory digital culture for the purpose of continuing a conversation. We understand that memes develop from emergent memes, which we define as altered or remixed spreadable media. We have adapted and modified Jenkins’ term “spreadable media” to refer to original or non-parodied messages. Our analysis benefits from the inclusion of Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory to aid in understanding how memes as artifacts of participatory digital culture are created. Our genre development of memes demonstrates the generative capacity for continued memetic transformation and for participation among members of digital culture. We use structuration to position these dynamic components as the core of a duality of structure for Internet memes.
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