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Articles tagged memes (9)

Samantha Melbourneweaver on the biggest mistake news organizations make with younger readers, the audience team’s growing role within the newsroom, and “getting weird” online.
Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are 10 of the studies about social and digital media they found most interesting in 2012.
A popular Dutch film series showcases how web videos change when moved into a new context — and they’re hoping to come to America.
Ad for the first cheeseburger pizza ever
The machine-like blogger has generated huge traffic numbers for Gawker — paying the pageview bills so other writers can focus on less viral work.
Los Angeles artist and designer An Xiao Mina says memes are often the only way to talk about sensitive political issues in China.
In the real-time news cycle, social media can — and should — be about much more than conversation. Burt Herman
Plus: The admirers and detractors of Facebook’s “frictionless sharing,” and the rest of the past two weeks’ most important stories and conversations.
Images can convene attention; they can also distribute it.
January 12, 2011