Politics
We are become meme
Internet culture has infected and mutated mainstream culture — and the shitposters have the reins of power. Meme journalism used to be a joke. Now it's a necessity.
engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: Memes, cancel culture and baby Yoda
Memes aren't just juvenile fun - they're a potent weapon in the political armory, and we have to start taking them seriously.
media literacy
Media Literacy will not create trust in journalism
There's an assumption that just training people to be critical of media will help deal with misinformation. That's wrong.
What would happen if journalists got the hell off Facebook?
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_
influencers
Rise of the Memeocracy — and its cost
We reward the ability to win attention with fame, validation and money. But that comes with a psychological price.
memes
Understanding the meme
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,
digital culture
Giphy starting to rank Gifs by popularity
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