[Air-L] the case for critical commons

[Nick Lalone]

It is interesting to see this meme coming up some 3 or 4 years after it
began (downfall released in 2004, WoW video perhaps the first incarnation of
this meme around the time of Burning Crusade's release). Constantin(e?)
films used to go around and send take-down messages for Youtube: . It seems
that they have either given in to the meme or stopped paying attention. That
Hitler is getting reduced to some sort of cartoonish version of himself is
an interesting thing that the internet seems to have brought us. My personal
favorite of the Hitler thing is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Wa_br39GU

Racial stereotypes in Memes that become popular would be a really
interesting topic for a paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubmX-Xg1bAQ is probably the most concentrated
collection of them.

Nick LaLone
Graduate Student / Systems Support
Department of Sociology
Texas State University - San Marcos

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Jankowski <nickjan at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Giorgos:
>
> I will be 'playing' and addressing one of the versions of the video meme
> during a graduate-level seminar later this semester in Ljubljana, Slovenia,
> and will share the reactions with you and Alex afterwards if of sufficient
> substance. I am also very appreciative Alex took the trouble to compile
> (many of) the contributions to the thread - thank you!
>
> Nick
>
>
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> At 13:00 3-2-2010, Giorgos Cheliotis wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-
>> > bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alex Leavitt
>> > Sent: Wednesday, 3 February, 2010 10:11 AM
>> > To: Ren Reynolds
>> > Cc: aoir list
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>
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