Projects & Writing

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  May 15, 2021 | Masha Zharova

  An Anthropological Introduction to Academic Weird Facebook

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  May 16, 2021 | Masha Zharova

  Overview of the Dataset

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  May 17, 2021 | Masha Zharova

  Estimating Community Size & Impact

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  May 18, 2021 | Masha Zharova

  Hypermedia Pedagogy

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  May 19, 2021

  User Guide

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  May 20, 2021

  Frequently Asked Questions

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Submit a Project or Essay!

Hypermedia Pedagogy: A Festival of Educational Memeology is accepting proposals for essays and projects about memes. The “festival” seeks to be an educational experience for novice meme researchers exploring the fields of memeology/memetics, media- and cyberculture studies through a semi-formal, blog-based format. The project has a meta-focus on educational meme communities and the pedagogical potential of memes as loci of informal learning on the web.

If you are interested in being a mentor to a younger researcher, or helping proofread and edit submissions, please let us know! We’ll definitely find you something to do!

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Cultural histories of academic meme communities
• Participant perspectives on educational memes
• Meme page/group admin perspectives on academic memes
• Histories of particular meme formats/narratives (especially those relevant to educational memes)
• Reflections on memes as a form of digital pedagogy
• Memes and informal learning through shitposting
• Group dynamics of educational meme communities
• Essays on the relationship between memes and dissemination of knowledge in the public sphere
• Philosophical essays on memes + education
• Memes and academic/university life
• Quantitative research on educational memes

Additional Topics

While we encourage a focus on educational memes, we will also accept papers on other meme-related topics, provided that they are thoughtful and informative.

(Have you ever written about memes in a paper for college? Polish it up and submit it!)

Submission Guidelines

Proposals should be 250-300 words. They must include a brief overview of your topic, scope, and ideas. If your paper involves quantitative analysis, please outline your proposed methods and process. All submissions should also include a short bio about your educational background/interests.

Publication Format

All accepted essays will have their own page in the projects section. You have the right to remove your essay from publication if you wish at any time.

The structure of the essay can vary and should be tailored to promote the most informative and engaging presentation of your thoughts. Please include citations and references to any secondary materials in an appropriate manner, as well as links to any net-locales mentioned. During the editing process, you may be asked to include additional parts and edit or remove other parts.

You may include images, graphs, and other supplementary materials in your essay. You may also include interactive data visualizations if they can be embedded/included as scripts.

Since the essays are presented in a web page format, feel free to take full advantage of the potentials of html/css/js/etc, your essay need not look like a pdf (keep in mind size restictions though). If you do not have the technical skills but you have a clear and easily-executed idea in mind, please reach out and we may be able to help you implement it.

Deadlines

Projects are accepted on a rolling basis.