LIT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rick Astley, Rickrolling, Bricolage
21 Dec 2016
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Popular memes: willy wonka, doge, unpopular opinion puppet, kayla maroni smirk, success baby, kermit the frog-that"s (cid:374)ot (cid:373)y (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess, bad luck brian, the philosiraptor, scumbag steve, good guy greg, dolan duck. A (cid:373)e(cid:373)e : is easy to reference or copy- can be a bricolage by others, works on multiple levels-entertains, amuses, disturbs, evokes emotion, hould(cid:374)"t see(cid:373) fake- must be an authentic outgrowth of pop culture. Video: rickroll: based off of rick astley; when someone sends you a link but it ends up being rick astley instead of what you thought the link was. The impact of technology on pop culture: technologies that collect, harvest, and analyze info are a booming industry, memes are for the people by the people. Take aways: example of printing press beings to re(cid:448)eal the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) . The numbers of people this technology touches. How the technology develops into a form of mass ideological persuasion and, to some extent, of social control.
