A very powerful tool would be to be able to release information inside social networks that would go viral and be incorporated to pop culture by becoming a meme. There are many factors that influence the destiny of a piece of information that is released in such an environment.
At first, it is very important to understand how information propagates…
Ekaterina Yudin
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18 October 2010, 12:17 am
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tags: campaining, crowdsourcing, danah boyd, elections, information visualization, Memes, misinformation, new media, news, npr, politics, social media, social networking sites, truthy, twitter
“Swiftboaters beware!”
The battle to control Congress is on and this election year the truth is about to get Truthier. Twitter – the social media network, twenty-four-hour news site, conversation and blogging platform, wedding and death announcement site, gossip patrol, and the general online information center that…
In this article I dove into the world of internet memes and tried to find a indicator for the viability and liveliness of these phenomena. As I will show I did find one and although it might be a highly questionable one, it does point out that people who pick up these memes want to carry out that they know what everyone is talking about.