I will facilitate a fun, interactive Netprov session in which we\u2019ll explore ways in which social media culture gradually transforms initial communications inventions on a platforms into fads, then into traditions and then into defacto rule-sets and codified subcultures that escape their initial creators, boom, and ultimately burn out. This session looks at \u201cmemes\u201d in the broad definition, as novel thinking-furniture or running gags that operate in language, images or both.\u00a0 By reproducing this life cycle in a short session, we\u2019ll learn about the cultural turning points by which microcultural events evolve to become weirder and weirder.\u00a0 Netprov is networked improvised literature, a scholarly label for the many collaborative, creative fictions that blossom in new media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rob Wittig: Netprov Playsession: “Lifecycle of a Web Fad” I will facilitate a fun, interactive Netprov session in which we\u2019ll explore ways in which social media culture gradually transforms initial communications inventions on a platforms into fads, then into traditions and then into defacto rule-sets and codified subcultures that escape their initial creators, boom, and … Continue reading Abstracts F<\/span>