PDF Version of the Article My nearly quarter of a century as a professor in higher education has allowed me to see my students grow and find their way in the world. Sometimes they will friend me on social media and, for a rare few, send me memes via direct...
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...
One of the areas that I wanted to address early on in "Meme Life" was to offer the theoretical underpinnings that defined our general understanding of how memes and memetic communication impact the exchanging of information with one another and how memes allow people to interact via the various mediums...
Comprehending Internet culture requires a person to have a keen understanding of how one connects with others on a social, cultural, and psychological level. Interactions within the online realm will often crossover to the physical world as discussions maintained through computers do not remain there. People bring their beliefs, values,...
