Announcements:
- Today is National Day of Writing (“Why I Write” blog post is extra credit)
- “New Age Museums”: allowing more interactions
- A phenomenon that is culturally specific to the US
- Memes can reshape the cultural landscapes that they are a part of
Cohen & Kenny:
- meme: single idea that is imitated as it changes and evolves(circulation)
- Three properties:
- longevity: livespan
- fecundity: fruitfulness or ability to produce
- copy fidelity: closeness to original
- Photogenic truth: in meme culture, not all things depicted are truth (208)
- Memes redefine culture, context
- Memes allow emotions to be explored through images
- “Although memes are created online … revision, and agreement.” (86)
Hafner & Jones:
- Framing: image/text interactions
- Multimodality: the use of multiple semiotic modes, such as visual, aural, spoken and written modes, in a text.
- spatial perspective:
- simultaneous: at the same time
- emotional appeal & visual arguments (61)
- cultures of use
Questions:
- Who is the “author” of the content?
