Memes!

Conspiracy Keanu Manovich Meme
Crying Lady Digital Media Meme

Memes are defined as “a form of communication within a culture.” This gives us a general idea, but hardly helps us narrow it down to anything we recognize in our daily lives. Today, memes are most commonly used on the internet, and they convey meanings understood by the general public. These messages are usually comedic, providing the reader with cultural quips.

My first meme shows Conspiracy Keanu, used as a template for paranoid, analytical questions that suggest potential scenarios or outcomes. I paired this template with a joke about Manovich’s text to emphasize his dry and extensive writing style. Crying Lady is used for overdramatized “hopeless” situations. I felt this template served well in communicating my attempts to complete the Assembling Digital Media assignment.

3 thoughts on “Memes!”

  1. It’s possible! Maybe Manovich is trying to drive his readers away from their computers in a panicked frenzy, where they’ll retreat for the shelter of an archaic communication environment without transcoding, without modularity, and most definitely without convergence.

    Great theme for the meme.

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