Tag archive for ‘memes’
2 Contagions // Week #3
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1.) Clive Thompson : How YouTube Changed the Way We Think
Summary // In this inspection of YouTube, Clive Thompson details a video project that a YouTube member named MadV posted which had a sign that said “One World”. This video started a 2,000 reply chain-reaction of short phrases “for your life”. Clive raises the question [...]
Sarah Silverman : Essential Meme Analysis
In this episode of The Sarah Silverman Program, Sarah tries to create a new word and realizes the implications behind that when her friend Brian also creates a new phrase. Her journey takes her down the road of peer approval. Will her word catch on? Find out in the episode Kangamangus.
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5 Contagions // Week #1
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1.) Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens
Summary // Some might think that teenagers drive the social media paradigm, but that is not necessarily true for social networking sites that have “adult features”. Some teens are saying sites like Twitter seem more professional because you are posting multiple, daily updates that people [...]