1. The Internet is one among many other ways in which people flirt, gossip, learn, shop, organize, etc. Hence Internet use has to be studied not exclusively by the traces that it leaves in cyberspace, but as it meshes with other common activities and projects comprising the common ground of people’s daily lives.
2. In other words, while some memes are just trendy pictures or videos that get passed around verbatim, others encourage a type of iteration, imitation, parody, and satire that can spawn literally thousands of variants. Memes, then, can become raw material for creativity.
3. Every participant in a communicative act has an imagined audience. Audiences are not discrete; when we talk, we think we are speaking only to the people in front of us or on the other end of the telephone, but this is in many ways a fantasy.
4. First, memes may best be understood as pieces of
cultural information that pass along from person to person, but gradually scale into a shared social phenomenon
. Although they spread on a micro basis, their impact is on the macro level: memes shape the mindsets, forms of behavior, and actions of social groups.
Read through the following ten quotations* and
select four for
your assessment response. You must write four separate quote responses of about 300 words each. In each response you must answer the following questions:
Who is the author of the quote and what is the title of the text in which the quote appears?
What is the meaning of the quote with reference to the main argument or claims made by the author?
What is the contribution and significance of the reading?
Do you agree with the author’s argument? Provide reasons for your stance.
ps. the article of each sentence in the attached files,
the source of quotation No.2
is https://contexts.org/articles/memes/
Attachments:
6222812_1_quotation-No.1.pdf
6222812_2_quotation-No.3.pdf
6222812_3_quotation-No.4.pdf
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