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  1. Mar 2021
    1. allowing state actors and multinational corporations to surveil, harm, and entrap queer peo-ple financially and legally.

      Very messed up, the fact that some countries use it as bait is horrible.

    2. Little about our lives is off-limits: “Demographic, economic, behavioral, health, religion, sexual-ity, and life event-based information are all routinely aggregated”

      This is something i am not really surprised of

    1. Marwick argues:‘Instafamous people like Frieszhave the potential to reach an audience that rivals that of television networks in size,what we might call a mass audience’

      It is all about shares, one viral picture or video can make you famous overnight, no need to be famous prior, such as the Dimelio family.

    2. umerous examples of celebrities caught doing or saying something that underminesthe brands with which they are affiliated

      This reminds me of "The last dance" documentary i recently watched on Micheal Jordan and Jordan refused to represent Reebok on the team USA jerseys.

    1. Repetitiveness may play an important role in encour-aging active user involvement in remaking video memes.

      This happens all of the time, like with the bernie sanders meme recently was shared and repeated countless times.

    2. Awa” stories—combining positive valence and high levels of emotional arousal—were, by far, the most-forwarded stories in the New York Times list

      All these shows out now about murderers and killers, they for sure result in negative response, but get a lot of popularity.

    3. This tendency toward positivity is in line with the growing body of evidence about the centrality of humor-ous content in viral processes.

      Humor equals positivity, this is something that makes sense to me.

    1. For example, the utterly serious keying of the original photograph has been transformed in the process of memetic uptake, which involves explicit playfulness. However, if the keying of politically oriented versions is mainly sardonic, the predominant tone in the pop-culture-oriented ones is amused and humorous

      This is something i feel our generation is good at, taking these very cynical things that happen and mock them or turn them into humor, interesting to me. Not all in good taste

    2. And how fucking dare anyone out there make fun of Britney, after all she’s been through! She lost her aunt, she went through a divorce, she had two fucking kids, her husband turned out to be a user, a cheater, and now she’s going through a custody battle

      A documentary came out on Brittany spears and all of her troubles, a movement and trend was happening during the film "free Brittany"

    1. t only takes a couple of mouse clicks to see hundreds of versions of the planking

      This was so popular, it got so popular it was even shown on tv shows such as the office.

    2. It involves technology-based manipulation, for instance by Photoshopping an image or adding a new soundtrack. A plethora of user-friendly applications that enable people to download and re-edit content have turned remixing into an extremely popu-lar practice

      This is something i see all of the time on my feed on instagram, very popular

  2. Feb 2021
    1. ewsroomsarestillstrugglingtofigureoutwhattheirnewrolesmaybeinanenvironmentwherethedemandforinformationcanbedrivenbyaffectandshapedbywhathappenswithinonlinecommu-nities,wherecitizensmaymakedemandsonwhatjournalistsandmaycobbletogetherinformationfromarangeofresourcesiftraditionalnewsoutletsfailtoprovidedesiredinformation

      this is something i never thought about, very interesting and intrigued to see

    2. certain“mediaeventsarenotlikeviruses.Theyareviruses,”andsuchavirusseeks“tospreaditsowncodeasfarandwideaspossible—fromcelltocellandfromorganismtoorganism”

      This analogy makes the idea of media and viruses easy to picture, viruses and media work in the same way, to spread as quickly and effectively as possible.

    1. Hypermedia,theotherpopularstructureofnewmedia,canalsobeseenasaparticularcaseofthemoregeneralprincipleofvariability.AccordingtothedefinitionbyHalaszandSchwartz,hypermediasystems“providetheirwiththeabilitytocreate,manipulateand/orexamineanetworkofinformati

      this is something done everyday

    1. Wobble GIFs rapidly alternate between two or more images to produce astereoscopic effect. While this technique dates at least to Ken Jacobs’ Nervous System filmperformances of the 1970s,

      It is interesting to me to see how far back this technology began, its now 51 years later and still used to this day.