This article describes how the Chinese state borrows from culture of celebrity fandom to implement a novel strategy governing that we term “fandom governance.” We illustrate state-run social media employed governance early in COVID-19 pandemic when country was convulsed with anxiety. As faced crisis, responded propagandistic display efficacy, broadcasting round-the-clock livestream massive emer...

My focus in this essay is to illustrate, through a detailed analysis of one particular article, the range of fallacious tactics that are used in attacks against religious faith. This article espouses a characterization of faith as a “mind virus,” more technically called a meme. Before analyzing this article, some brief background on memes seems appropriate. The term meme was first introduced by...

This study explored a method of representing the self graphically using elemental units of culture called memes. A diverse sample of eleven volunteers participated in the co-construction of individual “self-maps” during a series of interviews over a nine month period. Two of the resultant maps are presented as exemplars. Commonalities found in all eleven maps lend support to the notion that the...

How does information behave? A recent controversial approach is to use ideas in evolutionary biology to study the spread of information. However, in order for the information to ‘evolve’, there has to be some mechanism for variation. This paper would explore the ideas of memes which use the evolutionary biology approach as well as the pitfalls in using this picture. Finally, we will focus our a...

News and blog websites often have political bias (such as Republican, Democratic) in their articles. Automatic detection of the bias will improve personalized feed and categorization of news and blog articles. Our project aims to predict Republican vs. Democratic bias of news websites and political blogs using the phrases (a.k.a. memes) they quote in their text. We form a bipartite graph of web...

¿Cuánto arte se necesita para transformar un objeto en ícono? ¿Y cuánto de ese permanece la obra una vez que alcanza dicha categoría? Si nos alejamos discusión sobre el como producción y apuntamos hacia conocimiento, aparecen profundas implicancias pedagógicas desafían identidad icónica obra. Por eso frente al ícono limita a representar reafirmar los valores establecidos muchas veces interesado...

Recentstudiesindicatethatyouth’sincreasedexposuretopoliticalcontentonsocialmediaplatforms doesnotcorrelatepositivelywithanincreasedinterestinpolitics.Thisseeminglycontradictoryhigh exposureversuslowinterestindicatesacertainlevelofapathytowardspoliticalparticipation.This articleproposesthatinorderforyouthtoexperienceastrongerengagementinpart...