The Philosophy Of Memes. - Page 2

disobey · #26 11-13-2022, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ShottleBop

If you looked at it, mush-for-brains, you'd see the discussion of MEMES. You can't even recognize an attempt to discuss the topic of this thread.

You want to waste my time on that crap? It isn't rocket science. It doesn't need in depth analysis. A meme is just a meme. It may say something or it may just be a picture. If it says something, you can either agree with it or not. If it is a picture, either it is real or it isn't. I try to not post memes that say something untrue. I also avoid pictures that aren't real. You can take it from there.

disobey · #27 11-13-2022, 11:09 PM

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https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/USHMM-Meme-Lesson.pdf

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LESSON: Analyzing Memes
OVERVIEW
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
● What is the difference between opinion, fact, and belief?
● What are memes and how are they important in our culture today?
● What is an assertion? Reasoning? Evidence?

EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
At the end of this lesson, students understand:
● How to distinguish between opinion, fact, and belief
● That memes are an important cultural phenomenon that require critical thinking analysis
● How to determine what a meme is asserting and if there’s evidence to support the claim

TEACHER PREPARATION
● Familiarize yourself with memes if necessary
● Decide if you will provide examples of memes to analyze or let students select examples
● If students bring examples provide appropriate guidelines that align with your classroom needs
● Remember that memes are a way to construct collective identity and students can strongly identify with a meme. Acknowledge the negative and positive power of the medium and refrain from a personal response to memes students choose, giving the task of critically analyzing the meme back to the students.
● Student interactive
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Analyzing Memes | 1
GRADE LEVEL: Adaptable for grades 7–12
SUBJECT: Multidisciplinary
TIME REQUIRED: Approximately 60 minutes

This is a foundational lesson that introduces key concepts and information to students.

RATIONALE
Memes—attention-grabbing images with clever captions that pepper social media feeds—permeate our cultural discourse.
While memes have the potential to replace thoughtful conversation and impede connections between different opinions, with proper scaffolding they can be the entry point for critical thinking.

NOTE: Remember that memes are a way to construct collective identity and students can strongly identify with a meme. Acknowledge the negative and positive power of the medium and refrain from a personal response to memes students choose, giving the task of critically analyzing the meme back to the students.

LESSON: Analyzing Memes

DIRECTIONS:
1. Ask students to name some of their favorite social media sites. How does social media shape their identities? Do they feel like the person they are IRL (in real life) is the same as the image they present on social media? How do they feel about the accuracy of information they see on social media?

2. Ask students to articulate the differences between belief, opinion, and fact. Responses can be recorded on the board/ chart paper or you can use Menti or Padlet.
3. Share these definitions:
4. Ask students which one of these three (belief, opinion, fact) social media is the best at expressing.
5. Ask students if they are familiar with memes. What are they? Do they think they are influential? What do memes convey? After students have supplied answers ask if memes convey facts, opinions, or beliefs.
6. Share this information with students:

Analyzing Memes | 2
DEFINITIONS:
● A fact is verifiable. We can determine whether it is true by researching the evidence.
● An opinion is a judgment based on facts, an honest attempt to draw a reasonable conclusion from factual evidence.
● Unlike an opinion, a belief is a conviction based on cultural or personal faith, morality, or values.
DEFINITION:
● Memes—attention-grabbing images with clever captions that pepper social media feeds—permeate our cultural discourse. The word “meme” was first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976; he believed that cultural ideas, like genes, can spread and mutate. Their magnetism is scientific: a surge of dopamine is released whenwe see or share them because of the emotional responses they provoke .
[1 Has dopamine got us hooked on tech? | Technology | The Guardian
LESSON: Analyzing Memes
7. After briefly discussing the power of memes, share with students that they will be analyzing memes. Either provide a sample meme or students bring a meme to analyze. Share the student interactive.
8. For a meme to provoke critical thinking it should make a good argument, not simply express an opinion or belief. It should make an assertion that is backed by reason and evidence (ARE).
9. Ask students to identify the assertion they think the meme is proposing.
10. Next, students construct the reason why the creator of the meme would make this assertion.
11. Students then conduct research to see if they can uncover credible evidence to support the message of the meme. Cite all sources.
12. Once completed, ask students what is the opposite message of the assertion? Ask them to try and find evidence to support the opposite message of the original assertion. Can it be done?
[2 https://www.comm.pitt.edu/argument-c...sons-evidence]
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DEFINITIONS:
● Assertions (A) are statements about what is true or good or about what should be done or believed.
● Assertions are backed by reasons (R)
○ Reasons (R) are statements of support for assertions, making those claims something more than mere opinions. Reasons can be linked to assertions with the word because.
● Assertions and reasons are supported by evidence (E)
○ Evidence (E) supports the reasons offered and helps compel audiences to accept the assertion. Evidence answers challenge to the reasons given and can include examples, case studies, narratives, statistics, testimony, eyewitness accounts, and expert opinions.

Was all that crap supposed to mean something? If you have something to say, just say it.

It's a lesson plan for teaching young folks about memes, and how to analyze them with critical thinking. (But of course, "thinking" is an alien concept to you.)

Still going on about that crap? In another reply I said everything that needs to be said about memes.

ShottleBop · #28 11-14-2022, 12:21 AM

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If it is a picture, either it is real or it isn't. I try to post only memes that say something untrue.

disobey · #29 11-21-2022, 10:46 PM

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If it is a picture, either it is real or it isn't. I try to post only memes that say something untrue.

You suck.

-FX- · #30 11-21-2022, 11:31 PM

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They are good at cutting through the bullshit and getting right to the point.

I advise you to only post using memes from now on.

Long walls of text are not the way.

disobey · #31 11-23-2022, 12:33 AM

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They are good at cutting through the bullshit and getting right to the point.

I advise you to only post using memes from now on.

Long walls of text are not the way.

Yes, I know. Long walls of texts aren't the way to go, for idiots. But if that's what you choose to call it, I'll take that approach anyway. And as far as walls of texts go, have you seen the wall of text crap that shottle posted in replies to me to try and prove that the holocaust happened? Now THAT was a wall of text.

-FX- · #32 11-23-2022, 01:54 AM

https://twitter.com/memesmelody/stat...8VMr8lJ0i06qwg

ShottleBop · #33 11-25-2022, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by disobey

They are good at cutting through the bullshit and getting right to the point.

I advise you to only post using memes from now on.

Long walls of text are not the way.

Yes, I know. Long walls of texts aren't the way to go, for idiots. But if that's what you choose to call it, I'll take that approach anyway. And as far as walls of texts go, have you seen the wall of text crap that shottle posted in replies to me to try and prove that the holocaust happened? Now THAT was a wall of text.

You're right--long walls of texts aren't the way to go--for idiots. For folks who know how to read, though, long walls of text are sometimes a good way to proceed. In your case, I employed long walls of text because you show no inclination to actually click on links and read the original for yourself. YOUR FAULT, MUSH-FOR-BRAINS. i simply brought the mountain to Mohammed.

disobey · #34 12-03-2022, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by disobey

They are good at cutting through the bullshit and getting right to the point.

I advise you to only post using memes from now on.

Long walls of text are not the way.

Yes, I know. Long walls of texts aren't the way to go, for idiots. But if that's what you choose to call it, I'll take that approach anyway. And as far as walls of texts go, have you seen the wall of text crap that shottle posted in replies to me to try and prove that the holocaust happened? Now THAT was a wall of text.

You're right--long walls of texts aren't the way to go--for idiots. For folks who know how to read, though, long walls of text are sometimes a good way to proceed. In your case, I employed long walls of text because you show no inclination to actually click on links and read the original for yourself. YOUR FAULT, MUSH-FOR-BRAINS. i simply brought the mountain to Mohammed.

You're an idiot. You think you can bury the truth with lengthy text? The holocaust didn't happen. And it doesn't take long walls of text to prove it.

-FX- · #35 08-26-2023, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by disobey

It isn't rocket science. It doesn't need in depth analysis. A meme is just a meme.

This is true.

One reason a meme spreads, is that it is ironic, or funny, or something else, that has meaning. (meaningless memes don't spread)

The woke/leftist/commie/socialist don't understand this, because they are not funny.

This can be proven.

disobey · #36 08-26-2023, 11:46 PM

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It isn't rocket science. It doesn't need in depth analysis. A meme is just a meme.

This is true.

One reason a meme spreads, is that it is ironic, or funny, or something else, that has meaning. (meaningless memes don't spread)

The woke/leftist/commie/socialist don't understand this, because they are not funny.

This can be proven.

I posted a link to a book that had many memes in it. (Along with other pictures) I am guessing you at least looked at it. Of the memes, are there any that you disagree with? Next, what the types of people you spoke of understand or not, or why, doesn't matter. Whether or not any spread doesn't matter. If they are true or not is the only thing that matters. I posted many of those memes here in various threads. Any debate over them has been severely lacking.

Next, you can prove that the reason things are ignored is because they aren't funny? I doubt that. Not that I want you to try. But from what I have found at various forums, the real reason things are ignored or maybe "misunderstood" is because the vast majority of people are stupid. They prefer fantasy over reality. They also prefer to have others do their thinking for them. And who do they prefer to have think for them? The same people with the greatest ability to tell them. The wealthy. They think that just because they have the money, they must be right. But in reality, just the opposite is the case.

LarsMac · #37 08-27-2023, 12:04 AM

"Oh, the Irony!"

ShottleBop · #38 08-27-2023, 03:02 PM

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I posted a link to a book that had many memes in it. . . . If they are true or not is the only thing that matters. I posted many of those memes here in various threads. Any debate over them has been severely lacking.

You don't give a shit whether they're true or not. You simply assert that they're true, and, whenever anyone posts evidence showing how false they are (or how they've been manipulated to shed false light on whatever was said), you refuse to engage with it. :blackknight:

disobey · #39 08-30-2023, 10:47 PM

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"Oh, the Irony!"[/QUOTE]

The truth is never a disaster.

ShottleBop · #40 09-10-2023, 03:49 AM

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"Oh, the Irony!"[/quote

The truth is never a disaster.

A post by disobey, however, is always and forever a disaster.

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-FX- · #41 10-16-2023, 07:13 AM

Not really. I can't even remember most posts he has made. It's just a general fuzzy "I anyone not of the pure white race". And "Jews are not of the white race". That literally is my fuzzy memory of him.

Also, he doesn't care about anything else.

And he has never created or posted a meme that I can remember. Or was funny.

Of course that is also true for the other 11 people who post on this forum. I can't recall a single meme anyone here made. Or that was funny. (I am definitely not talking about the white race or Jew thing, nobody else here has posted anything like that)