Essays on Memes

QUESTION 1

One can begin to think clearly about these types of events without being "that guy,” and one can have a rational discussion about this. One of the characteristics of Extremistan is that it is more likely to be found in our modern society implying that it is living and not dependent on the old environment like mediocristan. Mediocristan tends to favor the weak by making sure that the total is not determined by a single instance whereas, in Extremistan a person gets the full due of what they are supposed to get. It, therefore, goes without saying that one ...

Identity and Information in the Internet Age

Today’s generation of kids and adults are dealing with technologies like no generation before. The major engine in this truly unique period is social media and the Internet. This has forever changed how we interact with one another as well as how we get information. We can interact with people all around the globe, with different cultures and nations, and do so all from our own living room. This new way of interacting with one another has had a great affect on how we form our self-identity. Social media and the Internet have made inaccuracies of information much ...

Nowadays the Internet is full of memes that became newly designed media tools. At the moment, our society is just beginning to truly interpret the real concept of memes. Susan Blackmore in her article “The Power of Memes” gives the definition of them: “Memes are stories, songs, habits, skills, inventions and ways of doing things that we copy from person to person by imitation.” (Blackmore, 52) They gradually burst into our life as funny pictures, jokes, funny videos and phrases, but their purpose is much more global. An unknown person, who created a meme of a good quality and ...

A Promotion Plan

Habitat for Humanity ReStores: A Promotion Plan Background ReStores of Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1991 as donations in kind to help building homes accumulated. People organized themselves to get donations of previously-owned home furnishings and other materials that would support Habitat for Humanity’s activities. ReStores has served as Habitat’s drop-center and selling outlet for donated materials. Through the sales of the products, it has served as one of Habitat’s fundraising channel. The donated materials themselves were used in building homes for qualified people. The store also served as a volunteer recruitment center for Habitat, ...

The digital wave has instigated significant changes into every sphere of life including the process of learning. Facebook is one digital tool that that has revolutionized the learning of English language by foreign students. There is a considerable correlation between the usage of English in the social media and the corresponding language growth of those involved. To be considered is how personality affects this form of learning. Personality traits determine how easily a person interacts with the social media especially Facebook. There is a nearconnection between personality qualities and English usage on Facebook by students who seek to learn English as the ...

Reader’s Log

As someone who watches a lot of films, I also talk to many other people who watch them and love to talk about them. Among these people (and many others), there are directors that many people consider ‘dumb’ or ‘lazy’ filmmakers, like Michael Bay (the man who makes the Transformers films and The Rock, usually responsible for what people consider big, dumb action films). However, when I evaluate their arguments for why using the four tests, I am not sure that they have much of a leg to stand on; I am firmly of the belief that, while Michael Bay movies ...

International Media Policy

Abstract Aspects such as globalization, continuous technological breakthrough, the state of conflict, the visible separation between the West and the East, or Occidentalism and orientalism, which intensify the discussion about otherness and emphasize the racial hate speeches define the nowadays media context. Currently mass media negotiates its role in this environment, defined by the above-mentioned social coordinates. Because globalization entered the social normality, mass media followed the game imposed by this social movement and applied a globalized media discourse, sustained by the available technological innovations that allow for the rapid dissemination of media content throughout the world due to ...

Dawkins Richard compares religion to a virus, which spreads and infects the weak-minded people, making them produce aberrant behavior. Like a virus, religion begins as a by- product, and use human beings to propagate its spread. Religions are costly to those infected in them, just as the idea of viruses. Religions demand large amounts of time and money impose health risks and make people believe in things that are contradicting. Religions and viruses succeed by using threats and promises, which People accept and want to pass. This is evident in Michael Blume’s speech, “The reproductive advantage of religion.” In his graph, ...