One thing I really enjoyed from this course was learning
about how digital media spreads and is shared over the web. Concepts like spreadability and stickiness were
quite interesting to me, but mostly it was fun learning about current affairs that
were going on and how the internet was responding to them. For instance the Joe Biden memes were fun and
were a breath of fresh air during a very tense election cycle.
The Joe Biden memes were very spreadable, they were interesting
and relevant to people’s lives and their success showed it. It took Joe Biden’s real world history of
being a bit of a goofball and extrapolated it to comedic levels. I wound up spending a ton of time just
reading those memes, one after the other. While the meme itself would be difficult to
describe as sticky, the websites that hosted it often were. Imgur, reddit, and others were able to use
the meme to keep their user’s attention on the website for some time.
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