After years of tirelessly reposting the same old pop-culture-based gags, Internet jokesters and meme-makers in search of novelty have turned en-masse to history and literature as a way of enriching their repertoire. This has resulted in a surge of interesting meme content about history, philosophy, and the sciences being created and spread across social media. Thousands of students, hobbyists, as well as serious academics are already congregating around these jokeposting “memepages” and their porous community structures, which function as hubs for collaboration, community education, and memetic experimentation.

Hypermedia Pedagogy: A Festival of Educational Memeology is a project seeking to document and analyze this unique cross-section of the internet meme community, and render it more accessible to both educators and students alike. It is “educational” in a double sense: it focuses on educational memes as its central theme, but also seeks to be an educational experience for novice meme researchers in a variety of disciplines.

The idea of a “festival” of educational memeology was inspired by The Culture Digitally Festival of Memeology.

Contributors

This project was created by Masha Zharova with the help and encouragement of the following fine folks:

Technical Mentorship, Direction, Advice & Support

Conceptual Direction & Theoretical Contribution