Internet paradigm II: Distributed media and Meme Warfare

This week we are discussing about distributed media and Meme Warfare,which is an extension of last week’s topic. Since the platform of legacy media has gone,nowadays with the distributed media everyone can post their speech and idea online without any limit.Today, people created a new platform to share their opinion and idea which is “Meme”.

Meme is an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations. Nowadays we can see Meme in everywhere, such as Facebook, ins,or YouTube.Memes even extends to politics,which also makes Meme Warfare happened.

“Trump meme”的图片搜索结果
https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2019/01/04/04-trump-meme-got.w330.h330.jpg

People use Meme to express their position and attitude, with the developed of media, huge amounts of memes were produces by us, which may include lots of fake news. People need to have their own trust on these message,and people should also use Meme as a correct way.

We want to see more memes like this :

“positive memes”的图片搜索结果
https://ahseeit.com/tamil/king-include/uploads/2019/03/fb_img_1551853249325-4701724317.jpg

But not like this :

相关图片
https://loopnewslive.blob.core.windows.net/liveimage/sites/default/files/2019-03/JWrkKQOx71.jpg

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