What’s Your Silly Media IQ?
No, we are not measuring anything but instead discuss your familiarity with silly media forms and speculating on the reasons they appeal to many people.
What’s Your Silly Media IQ?
Questions
From the UDG Agora Meme Media Studio
- Do you know of, remember meme images? Why are they memorable?
- What do they generate in a response?
- Do you see value in using the characteristics of memes to get attention or show humor, in online communication or for things like in-class presentations?
- Or do memes represent the worst elements of internet culture?
- Should we re-use memes, or resist them?
Warning: Avoid Building a Creepy Treehouse
“Any institutionally-created, operated, or controlled environment in which participants are lured in either by mimicking pre-existing open or naturally formed environments, or by force, through a system of punishments or rewards. Such institutional environments are often seen as more artificial in their construction and usage, and typically compete with pre-existing systems, environments, or applications. creepy treehouses also have an aspect of closed-ness, where activity within is hidden from the outside world, and may not be easily transferred from the environment by the participants.”
Jared Stein, Defining “Creepy Treehouse”
“There is also the matter of social disengagement, what American educator Herbert Kohl describes in his book “I won’t learn from you.” This is the conscious or unconscious disengagement that arises in a context where the learner feels excluded or alienated from the learning context. For example, if my students do not see their social identities reflected (social, cultural, socioeconomic, etc) they are unlikely to want to participate.”
Melanie McBride, Classroom2.0: Avoiding the “creepy treehouse”
- The Creepy Treehouse Problem (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Connected Teens” by danah boyd
Featured Image: 2017/365/144 Felix Is Learning to Code flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)
