The 's First World Problems : A Fair Use Analysis Of Internet Memes

Dangers of Technology Essay Rough Draft Throughout his short story Ray Bradbury uses literary devices to show that Mr.Mead, the main character set in his futuristic story, is the only person left with life as all other people are consumed by technology. The “I Tell You” political cartoon uses rhetorical devices to illustrate that technology is taking over society. Ray Bradbury and the political cartoonist both conscientiously portray that there are perils of technology as it alarmingly controls over people's opinions.

They use their artistic skills as an aid to convey messages to people of all ages. Political cartoons appear all over the internet and social media. The cartoonists usually distort several of the characters’ physical features in order to emphasize a belief or criticize an idea in the society. A recent political cartoon depicts Donald Trump with a long nose. The cartoonist tried to influence the viewers into believing that Donald Trump is a liar, and he does not fit to be president. It might seem that the cartoonist drew the cartoon just to make the viewers laugh, but his goal was actually to present the reasons why US citizens should not vote for Trump. This drawing might not immediately cause the viewers to alter their attitude towards Trump, but the drawing will appear in the viewer's’ mind whenever the presidential election is mentioned. Sometimes, the cartoon might even influence the viewer to vote for Clinton instead of Donald Trump. The more entertaining a cartoon appear, the faster the picture will spread throughout social media and the internet. This will allow the cartoonist to spread his ideas to a greater amount of

Memes in today 's society are used to mock things and often are satire. For my project I choose the memes of Willy Wonka and ‘I don’t always... but when I do I’. These are used to mock morality and the triviality of the upper class and privileged respectively. These are both issues that we face in society.

Satire is a literary technique that uses humor to emphasize a certain point, usually by over exaggerating its flaws. It is extremely effective because it approaches the topic in a seemingly light hearted manner, but portrays a deeper, more powerful message when thoroughly understood. In today’s culture, the media is flooded with various types of satire, irony, and sarcasm that efficiently conveys their ideas. For example, there are many political cartoons today of President Donald Trump. Pictures may over exaggerate certain features such as his bright yellow hair and orange-ish facial color in order to criticize him and express their disapproval.

Memes not only affect the group(s) that they target, but also the group that creates them. They reflect and construct norms for the creator group’s behaviour, and Fleishman and Smith effectively illustrate this in the case of neo-Nazis. For example, one behavioural norm that is reinforced within the neo-Nazi community is the belief in the intellectual superiority of Nazis. The echoes themselves are intended to critique the Jewish community in an intellectual way, as “The Right Stuff” uses symbolism and pseudo-philosophy to explain the “damaging” effects of Jewish people in society. People who use the echoes meme also demonstrate this belief in the intellectual superiority of Naziism: one tweet calls journalist Johnathan Weisman a “fool”

Specifically, in drawing attention to the ways that particular acts, figures and ideologies might be considered to be “scumbags,” the meme demands networked participants reconsider dominant political assumptions. Moreover, since it is done with a wink and a nod, audiences are able to laugh at these political proclamations. In essence, memes function as clowns in the throne room of politics. Against the stately discourse of official rhetorics they may seem trivial, but in their ability to provide comic remediation they provide an important foil to the pomposity and authority of political leaders. While less threating, these multiple voices and participatory iterations allow networked participants ever growing influence to not only comment on politics, but also to redirect the affect and ethos surrounding those politics. Ultimately Steve’s deliberative nature and diffuse agency fractures the seemingly unified ethos of political rhetoricians and issues, revealing that these ethoi are not fixed, but subject to the negotiation of the varied

Throughout the years, when there has been a piece of artwork there has always a similar piece of work that made fun of it. That similar piece of work is called a parody. Parodies primarily come in the form of music, books, pictures, and movies. Even though parodies are made to be funny, it still retains some of its formal elements. The work of art either has to be famously well known or widely open for a pun. The main objective in a parody is to imitate or make fun of it in some type of way. In today society parodies enclose us from every angle.

When people think of parodies, they think of music videos, movies, and skits that are made for the purpose of making fun of an existing music video, movie, or skit that was created under a serious context. The definition of parody is “the imitation of an artist, writer, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comedic effect.” Parodies are all very different in content, but the basic formula to make one is the same and all parodies aim to have the same goal: to make people laugh. In video parodies, there is always a subject taken to poke fun at, specific video editing similar to the original video, and characters that play over-exaggerated and often ridiculous caricatures of their original counterparts. For a website like College Humor, that produces watchable internet content, such as parodies of popular television shows, this means creating a show called “Precious Plum” based off of the hit-television show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”.

As Miley Cyrus’s audience matured, she purposefully changed her image by creating a new star text that was the polar opposite of her previous. A star text is everything that we associate with a start, including their promotion and body of work. Her hit sitcom Hannah Montana built her previous brand identity that connected with her audience of adolescent children. Miley’s original image was known for being a sweet and innocent teenage girl. Now her current start text identifies with heartbreak, drugs, activism and nonconformity. The extreme change of start text shocked and dismayed individuals. Many social media users and celebrity journalist wrote the transformation off implying it as a lost girl in her twenties making slipups she will eventually regret. Despite the negative comments, Miley has embraced her star text using it for free publicity and media attention. Despite Miley Cyrus’s claims that her controversial change was not for reward or fame. Her old star text became mundane to mainstream media and her maturing audience, compelling her to reinvent her star text in order to continue being famous and successful in the music industry.

This paper addresses whether we should censor or block access to websites with controversial material. It looks at the issue from several sides: The relevant US laws that are in place, how censorship is used at the university and corporate levels, how other countries are attempting censorship, and finally what I feel about the topic.

Since we already know who the people are in the posters we already have part of the image created in our minds about what the posters are about. The artist uses recognizable images and current events to bring about political and cultural thoughts onto the image. The message is brought on by the words and what is currently happening in the world. Each image is able to be shared by mass media and becomes better known. These posters would not make sense if they were put out during a time without the political effect. The hope poster would not make much sense if it was put out before Obama’s political campaign. Same with the grope poster it would not make sense if the sex scandal did not happen. The second and third image surely would not make sense if the first poster was never made. The joke poster would not be as recognizable if the Joker was not called The

Even when her message cannot be expressed humorously, Kirkman does not hesitate to share her opinion with the masses. Her primary focus is not on being funny, but rather, it is on eliciting positive, active responses beyond laughter. Although she is a comedian, she understands the importance of using her fame to spread important messages. “Immediacy and intimacy of social media networking sites may mean that messages spread by charged comics are taken more seriously and heard by more people” (Krefting 242). When asked about her Twitter account in an interview with The Boston Globe, Kirkman said, “I’m not a big fan of young people… and the tweets are my response to the Internet generation, which I find to be really unsophisticated’’ (Anderman 2). By composing humorous, informative and opinionated posts on a youth-driven social media platform, Kirkman may be able to influence or provoke political interest in the unsophisticated Internet generation. On the other hand, one must be aware that “charged humor can limit the commercial potential of a comic persona,” as people may react poorly to comedians’ opinions and choose to turn against them (Krefting 25). For example, on August 3, 2016, Kirkman tweeted: “I LIKE that Hillary [Clinton] has murdered a lot of people” (Saxena 1). The tweet resulted in an outpouring of criticism and death threats from Hillary Clinton supporters and

Every piece of writing (no matter what type or style) projects itself to its unique intended audience. The memes analyzed here have their own individual set of followers that are determined based on pathos, logos and ethos. The “Grumpy Cat” meme takes on its own set of fans, while the “Thanks, Obama” its own too, but a few amount of fans are present in both. They each share the Obama topic, so they both would share the anti-Obama fans, the advocates of previous presidents and the people that love the overall meme subject. On the contrary to what they both occupy, the meme about Hannah Montana has a wider variety of disciples because it will not only appeal to Miley and Hannah Montana groupies, but also people that grew up during the Hannah

The majority of responses are positive, like retweets or likes, but due to the hundreds of millions of people seeing the popular memes, there are several negative responses as well. Negative comments normally originate from contradicting opinions about the post, mostly sourcing from different political, religious, and cultural practices. In Mary Louise Pratt’s article, “Arts of the Contact Zone,” she refers to this “social space where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other” (Pratt 34) as a contact zone. Each internet trend forms its own individual contact zone where all cultures and beliefs are open to deliberate and learn from each other through a popular and commonly humorous form of

In mid two thousand and eight, a New York magazine had circulated a controversial political cartoon targeting the White House’s current residents, the President, and first lady. Within weeks many other news companies like CBS, NBC, and even Huffington post had some sort of written article on this controversy. This though had been one of many controversial cartoons they had circulated throughout their years of business. When they had circulated this one though they didn’t expect that big of a backlash. For them to keep their cartoon on the front page they had a lot of explaining. This led to interviews and more publicity for their cartoon in question.