Memes and Intertextuality - Dreams Come True · 2014-04-04 · Memes and viral videos teach us...
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Memes and Intertextuality
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Virality and Memes
¤ Viral video and viral meme characteristics ¤ Lots of views in a short period of time
¤ Significant responses and participation
¤ Novel and pathos based
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Virality and Circulation
¤ Digitality affords virality
¤ Two perspectives – metaphors! ¤ Viral video and memes are rhizomatic
¤ Viral video and memes are viruses
¤ Memes and viral videos teach us about circulation and rhetoric in different contexts – i.e. they help us read or analyze our culture
¤ You know, why? - >
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Fuel for Viral Videos and Memes
¤ Juxtaposition - placing things side-by-side. ¤ Offers contrasting and comparing effects
¤ Compositing (composite image) – merging elements into one ¤ Offers contrasting and comparing effects
¤ They help us metaphor and metonymize
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Juxtaposition and Composite
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More fuel: Intertextuality
¤ Intertextuality – when one text is in some way connected in a work to other texts in the social and textual matrix. ¤ It’s when one text references other texts!
¤ Archetypal allegory – where characters or events “represent particular qualities or ideas related to religion, morality, or politics” (Warnick and Heineman 81).
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More Fuel: Intertextuality
¤ Cross reference – reference to a specific film, novel, or other work that is widely known by readers and media consumers (Warnick and Heineman 82)
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Last Fuel: Intertextuality
¤ Parody – intentionally copies the style of someone famous or copies a particular situation, making the qualities of the original noticeable in a way that is humorous. Imitate and exaggerate the “original” text.
¤ Intertextual satire – form of expression where humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule is used so as to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or “vices.”
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Activity
¤ Brainstorm 2 ¤ Select one of the ideas you came up with on Monday
¤ Apply two terms we have learned to your idea…seriously!
¤ Write down two concepts you could from our understanding of viral video and memes to be used in the idea.
¤ Share the idea with each other in groups of three.
¤ Show me you can insert a gradient into a background stylishly using CSS3 into your Hashawha web page. ¤ Seriously. It can add a lot to your page,