Weekly Blog #2: MACHINES ARE CONTROLLING US

Hello, today I am really content with myself because it is early and I already did my homework and two projects, which is a new record for me. Anyways I am doing this blog entry correctly this time, so this is what we saw last week.

What I learned last week on SMRT 140

• Boring af video
• German Technician memes
• Screencasting #2
• Memes and Temes

One of the videos that was on media this week was called Dan Dennet: Dangerous Memes, and it was SOOOO BORING OMG. Dennet was an old man and his way of speaking was incredibly boring, I think it was due to the fact that his talk was targeted to other audicience. However, on resume he said that memes were threatening our culture and that's why they are dangerous.

We also saw a Buzzfeed article which was full with memes  of a  German university, where an authomatic door was broken and the  technician didn't fix it, so people overfloaded the door with memes, kinda protesting about the problem. This level of pettinnes actually made the problem to be solved, it was still very funny.

Something that we did that got me thinking the whole week was watching a video of memes again but we a twist. This lady basically said that machines are controlling and that we needed to take care because they will rule the world and that's why aliens ahaven't contacted us, or something like that. Anyways, it was very interesting, high, and I like it a lot.

Lastly, we made a screencasting about a critic review of something that we watched or read during the week. I made it about machines controlling us, it was okay I guess and I made it on time.

The word of the week is:

Memetics

Thanks for reading me, love you lots byeEE.

I'm sad but I had to do this: Writing 1-1 Summary

Back at this again, still frustrated that they want us to suffer like this. sorry bye

“How to Make  Splash on Social Media” is a TED talk made by Alex Ohanian, who is a part of the creators of the social news website Reddit, where he explains how his website helped Greenpeace choose a name for a whale and actually saving them in Japan. It is important to mention that Reddit works by posting stuff that you like and people votes on whether they like it or not, a lot of memes were created there.There was this campaign Greenpeace was doing where they wanted to save whales from being hunt in Japan, and they wanted to do it by tracking a whale and they wanted to name it. A lot of people were voting on really fancy names, but a smart guy decided that he wanted the whale to be named “Mr. Splashy Pants”. He went on to Reddit and said “Hey guys, there’s this thing on Greenpeace to save whales,let’s name this one Mr. Splashy Pants and win ok? Ok” and it worked. A lot ofpeople voted, Reddit changed their logo for a whale at that time and they wonwith 70% of the votes, but Greenpeace didn’t like this so they give more timefor the poll to close and for another name to win. Nonetheless Mr. SplashyPants won, Greenpeace sold merch about it and they actually saved the whales. This is an example of how by creating a meme and making other people interested you can help in a good cause, you don’t have to be all serious to help in something.The internet is about that, creating content and conversations so people get caught in and participate.