MY CREATED MEMES:
1. I am always exited for things that stimulates my creative mind!
2. Sorry but not sorry!
3. Sorry professor, I do take this class serious. I just have a busy work schedule, but I am on it!!!
ARE MEMES ART?
I found the following 3 links that are discussing if art are memes followed by my own opinion If I consider memes to be art and discussing different aspect of it why or why not.
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Opinion | Memes are a form of art not getting the recognition it deserves | Opinion | newsrecord.org
According to Opinion on the News Record platform Memes trigger different emotions in people from laughter to sadness and seriousness. These triggers within us allow us to criticize if we feel connected to these memes or not ,and therefore conclude for that fact we already treat them like art. It was stated as the following: “We remember the good as we would a piece of classical art, and criticize the bad as we would less-than-stellar art. We already treat them like art, so we may as well embrace the fact that they are.”.
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According to The PBS Channel they discussed the idea whether memes should be considered as art. The host MIke Rugnetta stated the following agreeing that it is a form of art by saying the following :“People are creating images and sharing them with strangers to communicate their personal experiences? That, my friends, is art.”
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This Youtube video is telling us the History of how memes were defined by Richard Dawkins. That is an expression of cultural heritage and human behavior. Though the narrator of this video states that ” Now, cultural ideas that are spread through memes”. explaining memes have now more evolved as inside jokes expressed in digital form over the internet. I don’t agree with the narrator because I think he contradicts himself by stating that this is the way our culture of today now expresses itself, which is a form of a current cultural heritage and how we as humans behave. Nothing has changed, only the platform that is accessible in a much easier way and broader audience due to technology.
MY OPINION ON WHETHER MEMES ARE GOOD OR BAD ART.
with an extra meme for you!
Defining Memes to be good or bad still depends on each individual. It carries to me the same concept as “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder”. You either get what is expressed in the message to your likeness or don’t like it what is been said or expressed. Therefore, a good or bad judgment about it does not define it to be art but recognizing the expression in the form of imagery that is presented to us as an audience. Whether we agree with that opinion or how it makes one feel.
For example, graffiti or murals on walls can often come with words too and are not necessarily liked but accepted as a form of art in our current society. Memes in my opinion can perhaps be considered being nothing in difference to that but just being expressed in a movable image or seen as a mural on our “digital walls.” This also tells us that it can be used as storytelling because memes are often a response about a subject or event that is going on in our society. Therefore, memes can be considered to be part of an overall story that’s been told in our culture and are continuing a discussing or conversation expressed using digital form.
Considering Memes to be bad or good communication is just like watching a different kind of news outlet to me from a personal individual. The host of a regular news outlet is either giving us good news or bad news today likewise the host of an Meme creator but the only different in this case at least through memes we can have a more transparent idea of how the multiple different people think in our society about a certain topic using a imagery and words that are personal to them. Memes therefor can limit the fact having a news outlet giving us biased opinion what the majority feels or communicates. Memes therefor in my opinion have a more current update of what the mental state truly is in our society considering discussing or responding on different topics.
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Thank you, great work on this, I love the memes and the links / references!
I know that you are taking the class seriously 🙂
Keep going!
We can work at our pace here in CT101, its all about the crafting of the psots and how we can always learn from each other 🙂
😀 Thank you professor, I appreciate your feedback and that you are acknowledging I am getting the hang of it slowly but surely :P.
For some reason I can not find the emoji toolbar, so I hope my manual ones are not too old skool. 🙂 😛 !!
Thank you so much! Oh, good question about the emoji toolbar in WordPress, I have to see if there is a plug in available! Thank you!