/32/ - Psychopolitics

>>40
I'll start with the recognition that memes are a form of "fast-food communication".

There is no depth to what the meme expresses - instead, it is usually a reminder of something more deep already contained within the viewer's mind.

That is to say, they do not create. They reinforce.

This is highly related to the concept of the "filter bubble" - in short, at the beginning of the internet, it was idealized that information would be widespread and exposure to new ideas would come naturally. But, with Web 2.0, the opposite has happened - due to various mechanisms furthered by advertising (advertisers naturally wish to advertise something that each specific end-user would possibly want).

Example: Facebook filters content that it deems inappropriate for the user.

>>40
Can you give us a definition of "meme"?

>>45
Digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users.
Shifman's definition seems workable.

>>46
Would you say that one of the threats of memes is that the reproduce existing information while giving the poster the impression that he is being original? That is, when one posts a meme, a variation of a previous postage, one believes to be creating oc, when he is actually maintaining the original message but giving off the impression of originality and diversity.

>>46
Also, would you qualify ebola-chan as a meme or as a viral?

>>40
We need Rightist artists.

>>68
Why?

>>71
Because most artists are Leftists. Pick up a comic every once in a while, and you'll see mostly Leftist propaganda.

Same with movies, drawings/paintings, and music.

>>52
For most people, time spent online is time alone with thoughts they think are theirs.
The threat is that people don't realize memes aren't their own thoughts.

>>110
Next time, say "The right needs artists" or "rightist artists would benefit the right", it reveal less about you.

>>126
What do you mean? How is that different from what I said?

>>139
When you say " we need rightist artists" you are apparently identifying yourself as a rightist. From that point on, any one who is left-oriented or has a negative conception of the right will have a bias against what ever you post, even if it makes sense. By maintaining an apparently neutral position for as long as possible you don't alienate any possible readers. In fact, you might say things that they agree with, and when the fact that you are a rightist come to light, they might realize that they agree with some rightist ideas.

>>45
>give us a definition of "meme"?

Richard Dawkins coined the term as a name for ideas that evolve slowly over time genes. His idea, accelerated by the speed of communication modification available to the largely p2p Information Age, quickly evolved into what we now know as "memes".

A meme is basically a rhetorical device that maintains a higher order structural pattern which harnesses the history of its context, while allowing its mutation, adaptation and application to new situations or rhetoric.

Memes can have audio, visual, and/or linguistic components, and thus are not necessarily placed only within image macros.

For example of the non-image-macro form instance:

> 2015
> not knowing about Richard Dawkins' meme video
> trying to discuss memes.
I seriously hope you guys don't do that!
The last line may be initialized as: ISHYGDDT! Morphed into various phonetic forms such as "I shigged it!" (riffing on the pronunciation of ISHYGDDT), and modified for the situation:

> y2k+15
> on psychopolitics board
> imagining you're not monitored by feds.
I seriously hope you guys don't believe that.

Note the structure and theme is similar, implications of being behind the times.

See also:
> implying X isn't Y
use of -fag suffix
Has anyone ever been so far even as decided to use go want to look more like?
etc.

I'd not have bumped this if anyone had linked this vid.

>>773

>Memes can have audio, visual, and/or linguistic components, and thus are not necessarily placed only within image macros.

and behavioural components, which are the most interesting.