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Generational statistics keep disagreeing once age, cohort and period blur together
Statistics on generational digital culture disagree because the terms are defined differently, the self-reports drift, and the sampling frame is the subject.
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Critiques of social media guide: sorting real complaints
Looking for a critiques of social media guide? Sort complaints such as filter bubbles and surveillance capitalism by design, business model, or medium.
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What makes a social media trend spread, drift in meaning and eventually die out
How the 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge and 2013 Harlem Shake spread, shifted in meaning, and faded from view across Facebook and YouTube.
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How to trace where a meme and its virality actually originated
Tracing memes and virality back: what a search can and cannot see, what each kind of evidence carries, and how to write an origin sentence you can defend.
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Memes and virality platforms: a portability framework
A framework for reading memes and virality platforms: four dependencies that shape whether formats travel, change at a boundary, or stay service-bound.
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Early social networks guide: reading old pages
An early social networks guide to GeoCities, Usenet, IRC, and profile services, with named archives and practical checks for reading surviving records.
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The ethics and mechanics of archiving internet culture properly
Internet culture archives come in four kinds, each with a characteristic gap, plus how to cite from them and the ethics of keeping what was meant to pass.
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How internet communities change: a reading framework
A framework for internet communities: the four parts, the sequence from founding to settlement, and how to read a community account without being misled.