Today's Topic: Memes vs. Tropes Opening Musical Playlist: This is Vulfpeck Readings: Media Lingua Franca: Fixity, Novelty, and Vernacular Creativity in Internet Memes.Download Instagrammatics and digital methods: Studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emojiDownload KnowYourMeme.com TVTropes.com Theories: Gestalt Theory Intertextuality Memetic Artifacts: Spongebob Squarepants is...
The last three months of the research process will be the virtual ethnography research method. I will talk to ten students from each of the universities based on the interview pool or if there is attrition in the pool, a new group of students from those who took the survey...
Virtual ethnography will begin at the end of the interview stage. I will randomly choose five Facebook users from each campus from those who participated in the interview process. I will send those selected an email explaining virtual ethnography and how I'm interested in the Facebook presence. I would further...
