As elaborated below, these decisions regarding both the medium and production encourage engage-ment, as they facilitate the creation of sequel imitations
The unprofessional/amateur medium actually encourages further interaction as it is indicative of a "lower bar" to clear in order for further engagement to occur.
n other words, each amount of sharing activity by likely bots tends to trigger a disproportionate amount of human engagement.
Bot intervention increases human interaction with online content
Giddens argues that social action is linked directly to the creation of rules and practices which recursively constitute the structure wherein social action takes place.
Social interaction is recursive--meaning that it loops in on itself, the act of social interaction a symptom and a cause of social interaction
Whereas a cultural artifact offers information about the culture that creates and uses it (Watts, 1981), a social artifact informs us about the social behavior of those individuals or groups which produce it (
Provide information about behaviour and communication rather than about a tradition or a specific practice.
a genre with its own set of rules and conventions and a genre whose production is a product of postmodern conceptions of representation and replication (Baudrillard, 1994) and the obfuscation of the consumer/producer binary which is manifest in the practices of participatory culture (Jenkins, 2007)
New conception of how media is spread and a new conception of ownership of content and how much it matters.
Internet memes are a digital version of Dawkins’ (1976) idea of memes, defined as individual bits of cultural information that propagate from person to person while undergoing variation, selection, and retention. Memes are transmitted throughout a population via social learning, and at any given time, members of a population either are adopting cultural traits (which become memes) or rejecting those traits through a complex interplay of social, emotional, and cognitive processes (Baker & Gammon, 2008).
So, this definition mentions Dawkins but it does seem mor focused on the communication aspect of memes.
This Emotional Selection Hypothesis
Meaning that we select our communication based upon the emotional impact it will have?
When one is embedded within an existing network of likeminded individuals
Affinity space?
Textual tags were manually assigned. The tags were used to identify the main action or point of the meme
How was this "main point" determined?
Memes were provided a categorical tag based on visual content. This tag provided a textual representation of the image even if the image had no embedded textual phrases
Holland's tags~
Humor is an interesting emotional category that contains a vast array of sub-categories.
Wow, much insight my dude
Although there are plenty of theories which could all be modelled, because the extant theory is so heavily based on assumptions which would have to be built into the models to make them work, they could all show interesting results which are, however, devoid of any resemblance to how culture actually happens
Too many theories but enough agreed upon assumptions to create a model that could actually be applied nor a model that would accurately represent some aspect of reality.
The resulting materialistic theory of consciousness2, where a „pandemonium‟ of various thoughts and nerve impulses struggle for expression, posits that what we comprehend as a serial stream of consciousness is actually a retrospectively experienced stream of narrative which was subject to continual editing as the various areas of the brain made their contributions.
There is no photogrpahic memory for most people; every memory is being continuously edited in the mind,
Rather, it is the usual practice to selectively pick examples from culture to help illustrate how memes may work and therefore convenient memes tend to be invoked to help description rather than candidates for real memes discovered in their cultural settings
Only pragmatic examples