class - meme

In class everyone got into pairs, I went with Stu, then we had to pick an area of Meme that we wanted to cover and create a power point on it to show to the class in Fridays lesson. Me and Stu got the idea slightly wrong so thanks to some guidance from my teacher I research meme in more detail.

Meme is a phrase used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet, much like an inside joke. The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.

A basic Internet meme is the propagation of a digital file from one person to others using methods available through the Internet, for example; email, blogs, social networking sites, instant messaging. The content often consists of a saying or joke, a rumor, an altered or original image, a complete website, a video clip or animation, or an offbeat news story. An Internet meme can evolve, by chance or through commentary, imitations, and parody versions, or even by collecting news accounts about itself. These memes are often extremely quickly viewed by thousands across the Internet. They are spread organically, voluntarily, and peer to peer, rather than by compulsion, predetermined path, or completely automated means.
Memes can be considered as art.



In the lesson I spoke to Mr Ford and he said that Stu and my presentation was fine, so I will re-blog it. Each group took it in turn to show what they had found on memes they were mostly videos off YouTube, many of which I recognise from videos that I have watched before on YouTube or rude tube, a documentary on Chanel 4.