MM 3223 - Rhett Gentry

Meme-culture and Meme Marketing             Memes have a larger impact than what I first initially considered. Everyone finds entertainment in something and memes have provided it. The best part is that you don’t have to be on Reddit or 4chan and religiously look through each forum to find them. Memes have become prevalent on all major social media platforms as well as one app that is innovative and of its own kind: IFunny . All these outlets of media have a way of forming a new sense of culture through memes.             Product knowledge is largely contributed by memes. “Smells like broke in here” is an amazing example of a meme that suddenly became infused with culture. Many of my fellow students walk to class every day with a pair of Airpods in only a week after the memes became popular about the product. This meme turned the product into a status symbol , a way t...

                 There was once a time that media literacy revolved primarily around newsprint and books. Over the course of decades, it has gone to radio, T.V., and the internet, the latter being the toughest to teach about with the rise of a new skill known as digital literacy. The rise of new media platforms calls for teachers to familiarize themselves with the products to ensure that their students may be able to understand them. The digital literacy training I received is much less than what my youngest brother is receiving. When I was in 2 nd grade, it would be a once in the week occurrence that my class would go to the computer lab. When my little brother was in 2 nd grade, he was issued an iPad by the school to use and take home with him. We are only separated in age by 11 years, but in our modern times, it is the speed in which technology is developed and distributed that caused for this astronomical jump in digital literacy th...