Footnotes

About 10 minutes of it is a minor update (rehash) of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, but the rest is new. The gathering may have been the highest concentration of amazingly creative and concerned global citizens I have ever been around. Hallway conversations were different than your typical conversations. Instead of lots of people saying, [...]

MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Weblog The re-use, remixing and adaptation of the LOLcat idea instead suggest that the spread and replication of this form of cultural production is not due to the especially compelling nature of the LOLcat idea but the fact it can be used to make meaning. A similar situation can be seen [...]

Viral video is a recent development, having first made an impression in the search engines around 2005. Examining Google Trends for ‘Viral Video’ provides a real-world version of a meme adoption pattern. As producers heard about this idea of viral video, more and more came online looking for, as well as producing, viral video. The [...]