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What Memes Mean Column Archive
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What Memes Mean: Ian and Larissa
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No Comments"We share this video because we still want marriage to work." -
What Memes Mean: Frictionless Sharing, Cool, Annoyance, and Positive Privacy
Posted on May 9, 2012 | 1 CommentFrictionless sharing can be problematic because it "takes away the secret place" where our ideas—and our souls—take shape. -
What Memes Mean: A Disheartening Meme On Introversion
Posted on May 2, 2012 | 6 Comments"Temperament is an integral part of this calling, a fascinating divine ordainment. It is something to be praised, properly understood, and developed, and never an excuse to avoid personal growth." -
What Memes Mean: What If Memes Were Art?
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No Comments"But the larger idea of 'beauty' has an unavoidable element of subjectivity to it in most cases, which is one of the difficulties in defining art as wholly objective." -
What Memes Mean: The Re-Appropriation of Ryan Gosling
Posted on April 18, 2012 | No Comments"Why do we feel we have the right to re-appropriate anything we want in the digital realm, even an entire person?" -
What Memes Mean: Avoiding Scumbag Apologetics
Posted on April 11, 2012 | 5 Comments"Quite a few of these photo-caption memes are quite regrettable, even embarrassing." -
What Memes Mean: #Shamrocking McDonald’s Attempt at Forcing Meme
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No Comments"It appears that meme is something you just can’t force." -
What Memes Mean: #KONY2012 Pt. 2 or What Happened to Jason Russell?
Posted on March 28, 2012 | 2 Comments"Why do so many people hate #KONY2012, Jason Russell, and Invisible Children so much?" -
What Memes Mean: #KONY2012, an Exercise in Awareness
Posted on March 14, 2012 | 1 Comment"Russell is making us face issues most of us would prefer to remain ignorant of." -
What Memes Mean: Talking TED on Video Virality
Posted on February 29, 2012 | No Comments"We have an amazing and unprecedented opportunity to interact with, comment on, and even create culture." -
What Memes Mean: What We All Think We Do…
Posted on February 22, 2012 | 1 Comment"This is the problem of living in a world of conjecture -- we fall victim to our own conjectures as well" -
What Memes Mean: Facebook Parenting And The Backlash Against Wuss Culture
Posted on February 15, 2012 | 7 Comments"We are tired of raising children to become a wuss culture, but that we have no idea how to go about fixing it." -
What Memes Mean: Muppet Political Discourse
Posted on February 8, 2012 | 2 CommentsLiving in an age where even Muppets offer political criticism ought to inspire us to speak better. -
What Memes Mean: Attempting to Navigate #thatawkwardmomentwhen
Posted on January 25, 2012 | No Comments"The times we braved the waters of awkwardness and realized that everyone’s in the same boat were gloriously freeing moments." -
What Memes Mean: An In-House Perspective of ‘Jesus > Religion’
Posted on January 18, 2012 | 7 Comments"The common man in popular discourse is not used to our in-house equations of" Jesus and religion. -
What Memes Mean: What I Learned about Memes in 2011
Posted on January 11, 2012 | No CommentsKirk takes a look "at the weird world of meme in 2011" and finds some method to our meme madness. -
What Memes Mean: Philosophy Shifts in Facebook’s Timeline
Posted on December 28, 2011 | 4 CommentsCould this be Facebook's attempt to “teach us to number our days” and to “[redeem] the time”? -
What Memes Mean: Star Wars vs. Star Trek vs. Twilight
Posted on December 14, 2011 | 5 Comments"Fantasy should offer us escape to a place where the return leaves us better off than when we left, not a few steps behind from where we started." -
What Memes Mean: How to Reimagine a Nativity Scene
Posted on December 7, 2011 | No Comments"Our attempts at reproducing the nativity are usually flawed from the start, even if we choose a more reverent route that doesn't involve ducks, penguins, and Spam." -
What Memes Mean: Facebook Stocking Stuffers and Liking Things
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsPerhaps the infiltration of the Like button into all facets of modern life simply puts some digital skin on a pre-existing human condition: You are what you love.