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July 2012

July 11, 2012

What Memes Mean: Why Memes Are Important (Part 2)

"Each meme we share, whether intentionally or ironically, is at another vote for what Internet...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

What Memes Mean: Why Memes Are Important (Part 1)

"The memes that fascinate us reveal much about our passions and our values, what we...

June 13, 2012

What Memes Mean: 'Trayvoning' and the Problem of Irreverent Humor

"If nothing is defined as sacred, eventually nothing will be treated as sacred—in this case,...

June 06, 2012

What Memes Mean: Life Moments in Live Lip-Dub

"What is the digital age and meme culture making our moments into?"

May 2012

May 16, 2012

What Memes Mean: Ian and Larissa

"We share this video because we still want marriage to work."

May 09, 2012

What Memes Mean: Frictionless Sharing, Cool, Annoyance, and Positive Privacy

Frictionless sharing can be problematic because it "takes away the secret place" where our ideas—and...

May 02, 2012

What Memes Mean: A Disheartening Meme On Introversion

"Temperament is an integral part of this calling, a fascinating divine ordainment. It is something...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

What Memes Mean: What If Memes Were Art?

"But the larger idea of 'beauty' has an unavoidable element of subjectivity to it in...

April 18, 2012

What Memes Mean: The Re-Appropriation of Ryan Gosling

"Why do we feel we have the right to re-appropriate anything we want in the...

April 11, 2012

What Memes Mean: Avoiding Scumbag Apologetics

"Quite a few of these photo-caption memes are quite regrettable, even embarrassing."

April 04, 2012

What Memes Mean: #Shamrocking McDonald's Attempt at Forcing Meme

"It appears that meme is something you just can’t force."

March 2012

March 28, 2012

What Memes Mean: #KONY2012 Pt. 2 or What Happened to Jason Russell?

"Why do so many people hate #KONY2012, Jason Russell, and Invisible Children so much?"

March 14, 2012

What Memes Mean: #KONY2012, an Exercise in Awareness

"Russell is making us face issues most of us would prefer to remain ignorant of."

February 2012

February 29, 2012

What Memes Mean: Talking TED on Video Virality

"We have an amazing and unprecedented opportunity to interact with, comment on, and even create...

February 22, 2012

What Memes Mean: What We All Think We Do…

"This is the problem of living in a world of conjecture -- we fall victim...

February 15, 2012

What Memes Mean: Facebook Parenting And The Backlash Against Wuss Culture

"We are tired of raising children to become a wuss culture, but that we have...

February 08, 2012

What Memes Mean: Muppet Political Discourse

Living in an age where even Muppets offer political criticism ought to inspire us to...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

What Memes Mean: Attempting to Navigate #thatawkwardmomentwhen

"The times we braved the waters of awkwardness and realized that everyone’s in the same...

January 18, 2012

What Memes Mean: An In-House Perspective of 'Jesus > Religion'

"The common man in popular discourse is not used to our in-house equations of" Jesus...

January 11, 2012

What Memes Mean: What I Learned about Memes in 2011

Kirk takes a look "at the weird world of meme in 2011" and finds some...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

What Memes Mean: Philosophy Shifts in Facebook's Timeline

Could this be Facebook's attempt to “teach us to number our days” and to “[redeem]...

December 14, 2011

What Memes Mean: Star Wars vs. Star Trek vs. Twilight

"Fantasy should offer us escape to a place where the return leaves us better off...

December 07, 2011

What Memes Mean: How to Reimagine a Nativity Scene

"Our attempts at reproducing the nativity are usually flawed from the start, even if we...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

What Memes Mean: Facebook Stocking Stuffers and Liking Things

Perhaps the infiltration of the Like button into all facets of modern life simply puts...

November 23, 2011

What Memes Mean: WW2 Tweets from 1939

"What we often today call 'inanity' is what future generations will call 'history.' "

November 16, 2011

What Memes Mean: The Kitten Covers and Creative Praise

"In a million little ways, in a million little name- and product-drops, we reveal to...

November 09, 2011

What Memes Mean: Nickelback and the Psychology of Punching Bags

"Common enemies and dislikes draw people together, often more readily than common loves and interests."

November 02, 2011

What Memes Mean: 'Tebowing' and the Complexity of Religious Humor

"We should be humbled to the point of laughter when we see how silly our...

October 2011

October 26, 2011

What Memes Mean: "A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work” (Part 1)

"Digital technology is changing the way we obtain and experience information."

October 19, 2011

What Memes Mean: Haunted Houses and Christian Self-Awareness

"Stop thinking so much about yourself, but do not stop thinking about yourself completely. Either...

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