2016年11月1日 星期二

meme,internetting, dark arts



我们的新视频系列“和阿曼达·赫斯一起上网”(Internetting with Amanda Hess)检视了网络文化上奇怪、不正确又完全悲哀的方面。第一集是《政治米姆的黑暗艺术》(The Dark Art of Political Memes)。欲知下一集消息,请点击这里


How Memes Are Shaping the Election

Viral internet in-jokes have become a dog whistle and potent force in the 2016 presidential race, says Brad Kim of Know Your Meme.


This Is What Happens When You Become a Meme

It turns out becoming a meme without your consent can suck really, really…
VICE.COM

The world is always watching President Barack Obama.
I100.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK


Think “Grand Theft Auto” meets petting zoo. The videogame "Goat Simulator," which lets gamers play as a goat, has been downloaded more than one million times.


The World of Internet Memes Embraces the Year of the Goat


THE MEDIUM
The Hitler Meme 
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

Video parodies of a film about the Third Reich are all over the Web. What’s the appeal of Adolf Hitler freaking out?

"In short, the company and its product — which has never been found to be unsafe, unhealthy, or to have caused food-borne illnesses — were victims of an insidious viral internet meme that wedged them between two powerful and opposing forces: the need to feed millions cheaply, and the growing desire of American consumers to know exactly what they’re eating."
This is inaccurate.


Dark arts - Wikipedia

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meme
n.

A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
[Shortening (modeled on GENE) of mimeme, from Greek mimēma, something imitated, from mimeisthai, to imitate. See mimesis.]





meme 

Pronunciation: /miːm/ 

NOUN
1
An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
2An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.




Derivatives

memetic
ADJECTIVE

Origin

1970s: from Greek mimēma 'that which is imitated', on the pattern of gene.

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