ART 80F - MODULE 3 LECTURE CONTENT

 

Meme Mechanics - Meme as medium

  • Pre-loaded with meaning

  • Easy to Reproduce, Modify + Distribute

  • Symbols and images can contain dual meanings or coded subtexts

  • Lightweight, Portable + Flexible - Streamlined information / Meaning

  • Paradoxical Format / Affect - the more they are trivialized, the more pervasive they can become, but they also require attention to operate…

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Reading Symbolic Meanings

  • Stacked or layered meanings

  • Meanings within meanings that change the meaning of the original meaning

Report on Using Hidden Emoji Code

Dr Sarah Wiseman, Lecturer in Computer Science at Goldsmiths and co-author of the study, said: “While we know some fruit and vegetable emoji have been repurposed by many people to mean something else, we were intrigued to find out about personal instances of this – examples of emoji that have a special meaning for just two people. Often this was about more than just typing something more quickly: people found that by using emoji they could convey very complex meanings and thoughts with them that could not be described in words.”


Emoji Portraits by Yung Jake