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Memes as Mechanisms: How Digital Subculture Informs the Real World

This article has been cross-posted from the Convergence Culture Consortium blog.
In the last week of January, an interesting conversational thread broke out on the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list regarding a video about scholarship in the “critical commons,” on the debate between digital humanities and media studies. The video follows below, but judging by [...]

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Help the Department of Alchemy return to South by Southwest!

Basically, there’s a big tech/film/music event called South by Southwest every year in Austin, TX. Last year, I was chosen to speak during the Interactive (ie. tech) festival, and I’m trying to make it back there to give another presentation. SXSW chooses panels/talks by outsourcing opinion via the “Panel Picker,” which provides about 1/3 of [...]

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Xanadu and the Internet Memetics

On May 26th 2008, Alex declared “Xanadu and the Internet Memetics” a great band name. So, if y’all steal it, I’m calling Creative Commons on you!
But, really, in this post I want to discuss Internet memes. Not in full — that was done well enough at ROFLCon, though the conversation will continue, especially at ROFLCon [...]

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