Shifting towards the end of my Meme Life tour that has taken over the last three years of my academic career and into promoting the Digital Culture in the Platform Era book starting this summer means that I should wrap up my “Defining Memes” series that supplemented the definitions for...
Today theme/topic of study: A Conceptual Framework Opening Musical Playlist: Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox Readings: “Chapter 1: A Conceptual Framework” from Paul McLean’s “Culture in Networks.” Encoding and decoding affordances- Stuart Hall and interactive media technologies Theories: Shared Social Experiences Encoding/Decoding Transmission Model of Communication Communities of locus, practice, interest,...
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...
