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  1. Mar 2021
    1. Thereal-time,ever-updatingnatureofTwittermadeitpar-ticularlyamenabletolive-tweetingeventssuchastheFergusonprotestsastheyhappened,andhashtagsprovedidealfororga-nizingsuchtweetssothatthoseparticipatingeitheronsiteorfromafarcouldengage

      This is very interesting to hear. I didn’t know that

    2. thehashtagremains,andisusedforanastonishingarrayofsocial,cultural,andpoliticalpurposes—someofthemvitallyuseful,notallofthemserious,andsomeofthemdownrighttox

      I believe hashtags can be a great source- luckily I feel Twitters cracking down on the like the complete nonsense hashtags

    3. Whilesomeuserswereexperiment-ingatthisstagewithhashtags,theideawasnottakenupmuchuntilaparticularlyacuteandsufficientlysignificantevent

      It’s interesting to hear the fires are what pushed the usage of hashtags

    4. consistsofthehashsymbol(#)i

      I never knew this was called a hash symbol - I always referred to it at pound

    1. Contestation

      "To debate"

    2. WithlaterredesignscametheNotificationstab,whichcol-latedallmetricsofattention,including©repliesor©mentions,retweets,andfavorites(orlikes);andasofearly2019separated“©mentions”outfromlikesandretweets.Theaggregation,andcounting,ofthesemarkersofconversationalitycreatedanewsetofmetrics,andwiththatanewsetofaspirationsandex-ploitsthatcontinuetoreshapetheplatform.

      This is very interesting, I remember when this update happened. I never thought it lead to reshaping the platform as a whole.

    3. Twitterasamechanismforprovidingatomisticstatusupdatesratherthanfordiscussionandongoinginteraction.

      It's interesting to see how much the usage of twitter has changed as I had no idea how it was originally used before this reading.

    4. Thisuseofthe@symbolprecedinganotherusersnamestartedtobecomearegularconventionforaddressingotherusers

      From my time on Twitter, this has been the most common way "@" was used - to "tag" a certain account.

    5. Theinte-grationofTwitterintomobilephonesfromthestartwaspartofaburgeoningofnewplatformsthattookadvantageofmobilemediatointegratelocationinformationintosocialnetwork-ing.

      This statement is interesting to hear as I didn't know Twitter was the platform to kickstart this.

    1. Continuity

      Uninterrupted, continuous connection between the means and the end.

    2. Nieborg and Helmond (2019) argued that a consumer–producer orien-tation to platforms misses their engagements with “multisided markets where platforms facilitate interactions between distinct ‘sides’ or ‘us-ers’, which include end-users (i.e. consumers), businesses (e.g. content developers), advertisers, and others” (p. 201).

      I agree with this claim

    3. ncreases in computational power have rapidly improved companies’ means of capture and their ubiquity

      I feel as a society we notice this happening more with nearly all social media sites

    4. Grindr. Released in 2009, Grindr is a geolocative mobile applica-tion with over 3.8 million daily active users who are primarily men-who-have-sex-with-men, as well as transwomen and non-binary individuals (Bucksense & Grindr, 2018).

      I had no idea grinder has been around since 2009.

    1. This dimension—which relates to the information memes convey about their own communica-tion—is labeled here as stance

      I never considered memes as forms of communication until reading about the analysis breakdown

    2. behavior-driven memetics sees memes as behaviors and artifacts rather than ideas.

      This is interesting to hear as I was unaware of how deep the understanding/ meaning of memes on the internet

    3. genotype–phenotype dichotomy

      Was unsure of what this meant until I did my own research

    1. First, the intense emotions and dramatic statements characterizing both sides of the memes debate need to be toned down.

      I was completely unaware of any conflict caused by memes.

    2. intertextuality

      The relations of texts, and how they are interperated.

    3. Gangnam—a luxurious neighborhood in Seoul

      Something I was unaware of... Pretty cool.

  2. Feb 2021
    1. Webpageschangewitheverypageview.AndmostofthecompaniesthatplacetheadsontheWebsitetrackyourmovementsacrosstheNet,‘remembering’whichadsyou’veseen,exactlywhenyousawthem,whetheryouclickedonthem,whereyouwereatthetime,andthesiteyouhavevisitedjustbefore.”2

      It's interesting learning that web pages tracked your movement / interactions with certain ad's before smartphones and social media.

    2. mediaassets"

      Owned productions or can be controlled

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

      I alway wondered about this, i'll never be able to unsee it now

    4. inthe1880s,thefirsttelevisionsys-sternsalreadyinvolvedstandardizationofsamplingbothintimeandspace.

      Very interesting learning that television development dates back into the 1880's.

    5. digitization

      transferring analog data to a digital form.

    1. unencumbered

      Free of any ownership.

    2. More narrativeformations emerged from flip books (1868)because of their linear nature.All of theseobjects were viewer-activated, intended foran audience of one or few in closeproximity to the image.

      I loved flip books as a kid! its pretty insightful hearing that a GIF is the technology version of a flip book - I personally never made the connection between the two.

    3. It has a creator who is unknown ordeemphasized

      Kind of interesting to hear that something so widely spread on the internet (GIFs) has an unknown or deemphasized creator.