A meme is a bit of cultural information exchange that starts as fact, and then the information can turn bad after filtering through many responses and re-sends of the information. With the passing of ideas, this information is called a meme. Good or bad, memes can turn bad. Memes go across culture in the many ways of: audio, visual and sensory information, and these memes are sets of information that evolves throughout social network channels on the internet. This information mimics real truth, but the meme can be easily mistaken for the real truth, with subtle information changes as
the information travels through the internet as a type of gene mutation. Memes carry a person's attitudes and cultural beliefs in information that travel from one person to another, effecting cultures. Bad information spread through memes can portray a negative effect to our youth and society, and such influences come form teen influenced music, fashion and media which causes bullying and authority bashing which causes negativity and false beliefs.
According to Douglas Rushkoff, "Program or Be programmed", the strong, true memes are the one's that survive, but I am sure this still needs to be proven, seeing that false information does get through, and the bad meme is believed causing negative effects.
A meme can take on a positive behavior to give an increased response to increase a value in something, but it often is also a false assumption that is being portrayed to gain sales, prestige or reputation in someone or something. As societies and cultures change, you will see that it was a mime that changed the ideas of the people, cultures, and society whether it was true or not, and as an example, listed with Rushkoff, "memes can mix, improve and change society, " and all this weaving back and forth has changed our relationship to brands as we buy and sell things, so brand as a story sells, and just about nothing else does; we have to have the connections.
All for Memes!
Memes and cultural society.
More on memes.
Rushkoff: Telling The Truth!!
The book At A Tipping Point?
And, Rushkoff, a meme does not make a brand. Teens on the web.
More on teens, the web's results on teens.
Duck: thedailyprophet.tumblr.com
My biggest issue with this....it's MEME! I started to read it and kept thinking...Mime? Other than that - it is great to see you defining the term, although this post doesn't really make an argument. Good start.
ReplyDeleteOkay, Barbra, sorry for the error, I will correct these, and thanks. Sorry I got back to you late, I checked for comments nearly everyday over spring break-thanks
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