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- Limor Shifman
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2011-10-03
- 権利情報
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- https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license
- DOI
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- 10.1177/1461444811412160
- 公開者
- SAGE Publications
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説明
<jats:p>Launched in 2005 as a video-sharing website, YouTube has become an emblem of participatory culture. A central feature of this website is the dazzling number of derivative videos, uploaded daily by many thousands. Using the ‘meme’ concept as an analytic tool, this article aims at uncovering the attributes common to ‘memetic videos’ – popular clips that generate extensive user engagement by way of creative derivatives. Drawing on YouTube popularity-measurements and on user-generated playlists, a corpus of 30 prominent memetic videos was assembled. A combined qualitative and quantitative analysis of these videos yielded six common features: focus on ordinary people, flawed masculinity, humor, simplicity, repetitiveness and whimsical content. Each of these attributes marks the video as incomplete or flawed, thereby invoking further creative dialogue. In its concluding section, the article addresses the skyrocketing popularity of mimicking in contemporary digital culture, linking it to economic, social and cultural logics of participation.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- New Media & Society
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New Media & Society 14 (2), 187-203, 2011-10-03
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