memes

Engaged Reading Digest: Memes, cancel culture and baby Yoda Members Public

Memes aren't just juvenile fun - they're a potent weapon in the political armory, and we have to start taking them seriously.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
engaged reading digest

Media Literacy will not create trust in journalism Members Public

There's an assumption that just training people to be critical of media will help deal with misinformation. That's wrong.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
media literacy

What would happen if journalists got the hell off Facebook? Members Public

Mathew Ingram wrote a typically interesting and provocative post last week, asking if the news industry should just get the hell off of Facebook. Are the benefits we accrue, diminishing though they are, worth the price we, and society as a whole, are paying [https://www.cjr.org/the_new_

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Facebook

Rise of the Memeocracy — and its cost Members Public

We reward the ability to win attention with fame, validation and money. But that comes with a psychological price.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
influencers

Understanding the meme Members Public

Abby Rabinowitz, writing for Nautilus about memes [http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/the-meme-as-meme]: > But trawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic 1976 book,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
memes

Giphy starting to rank Gifs by popularity Members Public

Giphy wants to tell you how dank [https://medium.com/@giphy/introducing-gif-view-counts-e3ec1899e7bd]1 your memes are: > You can see view counts for every GIF from an official Artist or Partner. When you visit an official Artist or Partner’s Channel, you can now also see how many GIFs are

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital culture