Vulture Reading Room - 'And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in a Viral Culture,' by Bill Wasik -- New York Magazine

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Diagnosis: The Spread of Viral Culture

  • And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in a Viral Culture
  • By Bill Wasik, June 11, 2009
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  1. 1.Sam Anderson:The dubious hypnotizing power of exploding whales, �Chocolate Rain,’ and �Lazy Sunday.’
  2. 2.Sam Anderson:Let me start with a knowing, discourse-exploding meta-statement.
  3. 3.Virginia Heffernan:Is the virus metaphor misleading, and ripe for retirement?
  4. 4.Charlie Todd:I was horrified when I got forwarded the first mob project e-mail.
  5. 5.Anil Dash:Memes are like pop music, not indie rock: It's good if lots of people like them.
  6. 6.David Rees:A PowerPoint Analysis by an Internet Has-Been
  7. 7.Charlie Todd:A big misconception with the term 'viral video' is that you can go 'make one.'
  8. 8.Sam Anderson:The Viral-Video Graph (Beta)
  9. 9.Virginia Heffernan:The movement of ideas is actually a supremely odd subject for this writer, who evidently chose it because he’s a cynic.
  10. 10.Anil Dash:Ideas and memes that go viral do so because they make us happy.
  11. 11.David Rees:If Twitter had saturated Iraq by March 2003, would anything have changed?
  12. 12.Sam Anderson:Farewell to the And Then There’s This Reading Room.

The Readers

David Rees
"A PowerPoint Analysis by an Internet Has-Been"
06/17/09 at 18:27

For his first contribution to the Reading Room, David Rees presents the following PowerPoint presentation, which includes �A Word About Moms & Viral Culture� and �A Few Notes Towards a Taxonomy of Viral Culture.� We’ve put it into PDF form below.

Next: A big misconception with the term 'viral video' is that you can go 'make one.'

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