Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
the Internet slowly reinvented the way people thought about everything, including those things that have no relationship to the Internet whatsoever.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Meme: a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users.
Weston Public Library • Because Internet
the eroding boundaries between top-down pop culture and bottom-up folk culture in contemporary society.
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
This leads to a somewhat surprising conclusion: “bad” texts make “good” memes in contemporary participatory culture. Since the logic of contemporary participatory culture is based on the active involvement of users, incompleteness serves as a textual hook for further dialogue, and for the successful spread of the meme. Thus, the ostensibly unfinish
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