On Friday I gave a talk to Pete Ashton‘s Metapod Connect course. It was a gentle introduction to how memes can work on the web, and how the culture around them creates other (some would say…) more useful things too.
This is a recording of the the talk (complete with the odd giggle, a few interjections and a tiny bit of mobile phone interference) alongside the slides I used.
Interweb memes and contribution to community from bounder on Vimeo.
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– @bounder‘s stuff on memes is great (http://bit.ly/3OuvA). Am nicking the #uksnow example for a presentation I’m doing. #plagiarism
Great stuff Jon. Thanks for sharing it.
This is great – will share with my students
Thanks for sharing
Charlotte
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