Tag: memes
An Anthropological Introduction to Academic Weird Facebook
In the early internet days, people often made compilations of jokes in text form in order to share them online. Nowadays, jokes are packaged and retold in meme form. But what about the reverse process? What about memes that originate online and then migrate outwards? In order to better understand the inner workings of visual humor, I decided to do some investigation, starting with puns.
Chinese Meme Presentation
A short presentation comparing Chinese and Western memes I did as part of a chinese speech contest.
The Evolution of Dog Pants
The divergent fork in Dog Pants memes is a great illustrator of the difference between narratological and stylistic subversion in memes.
Memes, Jokes & Visual Puns
In the early internet days, people often made compilations of jokes in text form in order to share them online. Nowadays, jokes are packaged and retold in meme form. But what about the reverse process? What about memes that originate online and then migrate outwards? In order to better understand the inner workings of visual humor, I decided to do some investigation, starting with puns.
Memes as Tools for Educational Communication (Drexel SPARK! Librarian talk #2)
This workshop outlines a foundation for understanding and critically analyzing Internet Memes as a creative and communicative medium.
Learning, Literacy & Lulz (Drexel SPARK! Librarian talk)
A rising new generation of punk academics has found a home for itself within the Facebook meme scene where they experiment with public education through pop-cultural meme remix as part of a discourse with the broader internet community.