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  1. Mar 2021
    1. “3%”ofuserswantedtoseerepliesfromuserstheyfol-lowedtouserstheydidn’t,

      I agree with this. I personal want to see what people I follow think of something when I see that they respond to something, but in order for me to see what the said I have to scroll through a text thread.

    1. Compelling narratives potentially attractaudiences for a multitude of reasons–they could be inspirational, relatable, instructive,cautionary and so on

      I feel like this really applies well to people who use there social media platform to bring awareness to issues like eating disorder, drug abuse, etc.

    2. Online media is, moreover, an exceedingly consumer-centric space, because indivi-duals actively and autonomously seek out the resources they are most interested in

      I agree with this, when I start scrolling through instagram I automatically go to what I want to see and I skip over the ones I don't.

    1. A single video is not an Internet meme but part of a meme

      I found this interesting, for the longest time I would associate full videos as a meme, I never though that the video is just a part of the meme.

    2. Since I use stance in this context as a very broad cat-egory, I wish to clarify it by breaking it into three subdi-mensions, drawing on concepts from discourse and media studies:

      I found it very beneficial looking at the 3 subdivision-mensions, it made it more specific to understand.

  2. Feb 2021
    1. The way that Dawkins describes memes is very interesting to me. It makes sense the way he described it, and I never have though that the spread of memes is like the transmission of genes.

    1. asitturnedout,thetweetingMadMen(liketheirTumblrforebears)werenotaffiliatedwithAMCortheshow.Instead,fansoftheshowhadinhabitedtheidentitiesoffavoritecharacter

      so basically the fans made a fan account for mad men.

    2. ThefirmcreatedanonlinemicrositecalledJerzifyYourselfthatallowedvisitorstoremaketheirimageinthestyleofthestarsofpopularMTVtelevisionshowJerseyShore

      this reminds me of jib jabs elf yourself that people so around the holidays that incorporates their pictures and makes them look like elf and dance around.

    3. However,whilenewtoolshaveproliferatedthemeansbywhichpeoplecancirculatematerial,word-of-mouthrecommendationsandthesharingofmediacontentareimpulsesthathavelongdrivenhowpeopleinteractwitheachother

      a big way o how my friends and I communicate is with sharing videos to each other. it helps keep us connected and communicating even if we don't see each other every day.

    1. InHollywoodfilms,flocksofbirds,antcolonies,andcrowdsofpeopleareautomaticallycreatedbyAL(artificiallife)software

      this makes a lot of sense. when I think of AI I think of hunger games and all of those graphics. Its interesting to think that ai can be as intense as making a elephant to making a crowd of birds.

    2. Anewmediaobjectcanbedescribedformally(mathematically).Forinstance,animageorashapecanbedescribedusingamathematicalfunction

      I don't really understand computers but I found this to be super interesting. I find it cool to think that a image or shape can be described with a math function.

    1. As the popularity of photographic GIFs

      I couldn't highlight above with the glitter GIFS but in my graphic design class last year, we talked about about Text and kerning. glitter letters that move are super hard to understand, yes they are fun but they are just not practical.