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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. National Child Abuse Prevention Month isn’t until April. It caught my eye and I couldn’t help but wonder what it was all about, what was the story behind the story.

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Now you can determine your level of Fauci with this handy meme

The Verge

So to lighten the mood and get the students interested, she and her co-instructor Reece Lyerly start every class with a meme of some sort. The meme has made it beyond the classroom and social media; Errichetti said Lyerly showed it to some colleagues at the National Institutes of Health. “So

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

New memes get started everyday. Remember the FB meme challenge that asked women to post what color bra they were wearing that day? Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. Here’s the original meme: “Right girls let’s have some fun.

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Facebook will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests

The Verge

Facebook didn’t disclose who its partners are, but this could theoretically mean that if a brand like National Geographic uploaded its photos to Facebook’s Rights Manager, it could then monitor where they show up, like on other brands’ Instagram pages. This will be especially interesting to watch with memes.

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Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar

TechCrunch

The networks made online — either through the rise of meme culture or Substack spice — can be a competitive advantage in the world of investment, as two new funds this week showed us. And Chief Meme Officer Turner Novak finally debuted Banana Capital’s debut fund launched with $9.99 million in funding.

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Women’s soccer fans are online, organized, and refuse to be ignored

The Verge

These are typical responses from fans of the National Women’s Soccer League, which was the first contact sports league to return to play during the COVID-19 pandemic with its Challenge Cup. So you’re watching games online,” says Meg Linehan, who covers the NWSL and the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) for The Athletic. “If USL memes 3.

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‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind

The Verge

The result, Danielle McCann, the social media coordinator for the National Federation of the Blind, tells me, can be pretty funny. Memes usually involve rapidly evolving iterations of undescribed images with tiny words in weird fonts. Those false assumptions often mean that people are left out of fun cultural moments on social media.

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