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reuse (re)create remix on 2009-11-10
Digital Culture Adventure on 2009-10-15
- Political remix video not criticize the way that mass media work, but it used them to send messages totally different from that which the media want to launch.
- the usage of material that is already familiar to the public and has a certain amount of built in cultural meaning helps to create a more close relation with the public
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- - Dennis G. Jez, a teacher from Pennsylvania
Edwards/Tryon: Political video mashups as allegories of citizen empowerment on 2009-10-14
- Subsequently, inspired after watching another user’s mashup, still more users may choose to participate directly in remix culture, and produce their own video mashups. In terms of empowerment, these further acts of participation are crucial because they signify how users can become more active and more media literate with the online and off–line information they are consuming on a daily basis [4].
- Just as in the case of a video camera in the hands of a video activist at a street rally, engaged online users can produce mashups as a means for political advocacy (tool), political protest (weapon), and political observation (witness).
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eastgate Systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-10-06
- I don't understand how you can initiate a deletion debate and comment upon it and have nothing to do with it. Please explain. OF COURSE I have a relationship with Eastgate -- I say so. Do you know anything about this subject, i.e. pre-web hypertext? --Pleasantville 01:52, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
  
  Comment I do not need to. No special knowledge is needed to edit wikipedia ⇒ SWATJester ^{Denny Crane.} 02:13, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- Not sure why it was ever tagged for deletion instead of expansion; although the former clearly does have the effect of forcing folks to flesh out article, it's not worth the bad blood it creates
[WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism on 2009-10-06
- You're making the argument that since someday, some lonely person
  > > might have enough freetime to waste typing in thousands and thousands
  > > of entries in the manner of a robot, we have to delete any and every
  > > article that's too trivial today.
- relax and accomodate them
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: If It Doesn't Spread, It's Dead (Part Six): Spreadable Content on 2009-10-01
- What makes content worth spreading
- As this circulation occurs, the original producer no longer is able to determine what a particular piece of content means because they are no longer able to control the context within which it is seen.
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- - John Fiske (1989), draws a distinction between mass culture, that is culture which is mass produced and distributed, and popular culture, that is culture which has been meaningfully integrated into the everyday lives of consumers.
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: If It Doesn't Spread, It's Dead (Part One): Media Viruses and Memes on 2009-10-01
- Talking about memes and viral media places an emphasis on the replication of the original idea, which fails to consider the everyday reality of communication -- that ideas get transformed, repurposed, or distorted as they pass from hand to hand
- those ideas which survive are those which can be most easily appropriated and reworked by a range of different communities
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- - The metaphor of "infection" reduces consumers to the involuntary "hosts" of media viruses, while holding onto the idea that media producers can design "killer" texts which can ensure circulation by being injected directly into the cultural "bloodstream."
  - No one knew for sure why any given message "turned viral," though there was lots of talk about "designing the DNA" of viral properties and being "organic" to the communities through which messages circulated
  - Dawkins was looking for a way to explain cultural evolution, imagining it as a biological system
    Jill Walker Rettberg on 2009-10-01
    
    Actually, no: he was looking for a way of showing that the principles of natural selection are universal and that evolution could happen on other planets, say, using different building blocks than the DNA of our genes.
  - explain everything
    Jill Walker Rettberg on 2009-10-01
    
    more than he really says...
  - In this sense, then, it is somewhat hard to see how contained within this structure is a "message" waiting to occupy unsuspecting minds
    Jill Walker Rettberg on 2009-10-01
    
    I think actually that this is EXACTLY what Dawkins meant by a meme - that it is the structure, the "how to", rather than the exact artefact. He talks about celibacy, or the idea of hell being memes, for instance - and also how they can be implemented in different religions and in different ways. "Celibacy" isn't a final product after all, but could be adapted.
Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success? - TIME on 2009-09-30
- Wikipedia's natural resource is an emotion
Richard Dawkins: "Memes, The New Replicators'' (chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene) on 2009-09-29
- I have been dissatisfied with explanations that
  my fellow-enthousiasts have offered for human behaviour. They have tried
  to look for `biological advantages' in various attributes of human
  civilization
- I think that a new kind of
  replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in
  the face. It is still in its infancy, still drifting clumsily about in
  its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate
  that leaves the old gene panting far behind.
  
  The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new
  replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission,
  or a unit of imitation. `Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek
  root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like `gene'. I hope my
  classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to
  meme.(2) If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be
  thought of as being related to `memory', or to the French word
  même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with `cream'.
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- - qualities
    that make for high survival value among memes. But in general they must
    be the same as those discussed for the replicators of Chapter 2: longevity,
    fecundity, and copying-fidelity
  - copying-fidelity. Here I must admit that I am on shaky ground
  - It looks as though meme transmission is subject to
    continuous mutation, and also to blending.
  - An `idea-meme' might be defined as an entity that is
    capable of being transmitted from one brain to another.
  - The human brain, and the body that it controls, cannot do
    more than one or a few things at once. If a meme is to dominate the
    attention of a human brain, it must do so at the expense of `rival'
    memes.
Ethan Zuckerman: How Cute Cats Help Combat Online Censorship on 2009-09-27

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