Many of you wrote in your responses and reflections that you particularly liked the analysis of memes that we read in Unit 1. I was looking up “lifespan of a meme” tonight (for a book chapter I’m writing about online bisexual culture), and found this much longer/more detailed analysis of memes: https://baec.aua.am/files/2018/11/Noubar_Ounjian_Analysis-and-the-Elements-of-the-Lifespan-of-Memes-from-the-scope-of-Semiotics-and-Darwinian-Theory_Capstone.pdf

If you’re interested in linguistics and semiotic theory, take a skim through the text, but if not, it’s worth a scroll-through just to see the screenshots of a bunch of good memes that are included and some interesting charts on the different memes’ popularity over time. This was written as somebody’s senior thesis for an English and Communications degree.