[Air-L] the case for critical commons

[Giorgos Cheliotis]

Thanks Alex, this looks interesting though I only just glanced at your essay
right now. I used the mailing list discussion as an opportunity to talk to
my students about memes in the context of remediation. Given that they're
mostly Asian, they seemed to enjoy some of the Downfall videos I showed them
with little or no concern about the context. They are not ignorant of the
context, but will take to the parody much more easily than (some) Europeans.
I'm curious how a similar student audience in Europe or the US might react
and at what point memes would become unfunny. 

Giorgos


Giorgos Cheliotis
Assistant Professor
Communications and New Media
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore 


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> bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alex Leavitt
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 February, 2010 10:11 AM
> To: Ren Reynolds
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] the case for critical commons
> 
> Wrote up an essay about this thread and the Hitler Meme phenomenon.
> Goes
> through the history of and reactions to the video, as well as the
> implications of memetics outside of online subculture:
> 
> *Memes as Mechanisms: How Digital Subculture Informs the Real World
> *
> http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2010/02/memes_as_mechanisms_ho
> w_digita.php
> http://bit.ly/9aCdry
> 
> Would love feedback if anyone has some.
> 
> Alex Leavitt
> 
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> Alexander Leavitt
> Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium
> Comparative Media Studies, MIT
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> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Ren Reynolds <ren at aldermangroup.com>
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> > Hitler finds out about the iPad:
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