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"Have you ever checked your Twitter timeline and wondered what on Earth
everyone was talking about? You step away for a few hours and suddenly your
timeline is filled with people swapping memes about an event you’ve completely
missed.
We studied these “memetic moments” to understand how memes emerge quickly and
spontaneously in response to key social events. We found they move even faster
than we had thought, sometimes emerging, spreading wildly, and beginning to
dissolve in less than a day.
While Twitter and other social media are notorious as sites of abuse, racism,
trolling and other toxic content, we found very little of this material in our
study of fast-moving memes.
We think the speed of movement itself may provide less opportunity for negative
engagement. Memes like these may be an underappreciated element of a positive
social media culture – and give hints of how social media platforms can
improve."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics