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Article is using "memes" interchangeably with "image macros" for those pedants out there like me.
by wavefunction 8y ago
Article is using "memes" interchangeably with "image macros" for those pedants out there like me.
- Y_Y 8y agoI think that's a lost battle, like "hacker".
- reificator 8y agoUnfortunately you're right on both counts.
- nicklaf 8y agoI'm just happy that the news media didn't succeed in changing the term "trolling" to mean "cyberbullying" a few years ago. Edit: spelling
- dingo_bat 8y agoMy mom was aghast when I told her I took part in a hackathon. She couldn't understand why I would participate in a criminal activity.
- pochamago 8y agoIt mentions the use of video and audio as well, image macros are just the most immediately recognizable
- nicklaf 8y agoThe concept of a "meme" itself (genetic material in media) is at best an analogy to begin with, and from what I've read, fails to take into account the existing literature on semiotics [1]: Another criticism comes from semiotics, (e.g., Deacon,[16] Kull[17]) stating that the concept of meme is a primitivized concept of Sign. Meme is thus described in memetics as a sign without its triadic nature. In other words, meme is a degenerate sign, which includes only its ability of being copied. Accordingly, in the broadest sense, the objects of copying are memes, whereas the objects of translation and interpretation are signs. You can go very far down the rabbit hole of pedantry. ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics#Criticism
- wavefunction 8y agoThe pedantry, it never ends!
- Slippery_John 8y agoWords are defined by their usage. A vanishingly small number of people use the term image macro, and in my experience that has mostly been for pedantry.