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This lecture theorizes memes as sympoietic beings inhabitating social media platforms, remediating life through users and the logics of remix culture, creating new organisms undergoing evolution online. In this regard, I am challenging the assumption that what has been deemed 'brain rot' is not just silly jokes but bear the trademarks of a myriad of user customs, platform logics, cultural references, and media-specific constraints. In the example of the O I I A cat meme, its emergence can be traced across the platforms of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Bilibili, various image macro templates, and an evolution of sped-up audios.
Title of Event
The Life of Signals? Networking Meeting in Berlin for POM in Japan
Organisers/Management
Miyazaki, Shintaro
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Masuda, Nobuhiro
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
