Prewriting and 10 tentative sources
The Content of Memes and the Effect of Content on Meme Dissemination Topic: Memes and how content affects how they spread. Goal: Compare how different content profiles for memes spread Research Questions: 1. How does the content of a meme affect how fast a meme spreads? Content: specifically- text, imagery, meaning, rhetorical value 2. How does the content of a meme affect how widespread a meme becomes? Type of research to be conducted: Empirical Methods: Quantitative analysis using several constructed memes measuring the instances of each meme’s propagation over a set time periods. Aspects I need to understand before getting to original research: What is and isn’t a meme? What is a meme? The term meme comes from Richard Dawkins in 1976. Basically, the cultural equiv...