What's a meme? What's an Internet meme?
A dynamically evolving global visual culture of the Internet is creating a new culture of political, social and interpersonal discourse that is at, at the same time, universal yet local, personal yet public, and emotionally analytical. To me, the meme is the basic intellectual-aesthetic unit that drives the rapid spread of ideation on the Internet today.
This page will introduce what memes are, what Internet memes are, and how they work with other forms of social media and online communication to create the widespread, liquid political-social sentiment shifts we have seen recently in politics, uprisings such as the so-called "Arab Spring" and other internet-enabled social movement.
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