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If you're interested in memes, this show is for you. Managing director at Literally Media and Editor in chief of Know Your Meme, Don Caldwell joins Adam to talk about how memes have evolved from the early days of the commercial internet and how they look like they'll change going forward. Don's been at Know Your Meme for some of the memes that pop in your head when you describe what memes mean, the context he provides is rich. Find Don at knowyourmeme.com and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-caldwell-67b39016/ A great companion to this episode would be Amanda Brennan's recent conversation with Adam: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/lsRveNcGpxb The Strategy Inside Everything is produced by me, Adam Pierno. If you like what you've heard, leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Actually, I have no idea if that helps, or if it's ever done anybody any good. If you really want to help the show, and you like what you've heard, share it with someone else you think will dig it. That's the best way to help the show and keep the conversation growing. If you have an idea, a question or want to push back, go to thatsnotaninsight.com where you can send me a message or leave me a voicemail that will be added to future shows. New music for The Strategy Inside Everything is by Luke Holizna, for more information on his music go to holizna.com. You can also support him by going to his Patreon at patreon.com/Holizna. For more information on me, you can go to AdamPierno.com To learn about my books, my speaking and my consulting practice. Thanks for listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adam-pierno/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adam-pierno/support
Ever wonder why a meme resonates with you so hard? Ever catch yourself realizing the dumb looping video you just giggled at and retweeted is actually a clever commentary on a common social convention? Ever apply library science skills to one of the largest meme data sets in the world? Okay, two out of three ain't bad. Amanda Brennan joins Adam to talk about her path into the world of internet culture and memes, and how she makes sense of it all. Her passion for memes is rivaled by her understanding of the form. Find Amanda on Tumblr: memelibrarian.com On Twitter: https://twitter.com/continuants And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/continuants/ But definitely not on TikTok (as of this recording) Find your host, Adam Pierno at www.adampierno.com The Strategy Inside Everything is the podcast for people who think for a living. If you have an idea, a question or you want to push back on something you hear in this episode, go to https://thatsnotaninsight.com and leave a message or a voicemail for me. The best and most interesting messages will be added to future episodes, and I can't wait to hear from you. Music for The Strategy Inside Everything is by Sawsquarenoise. Host Adam Pierno is an author, speaker and strategy consultant. Learn more at adampierno.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adam-pierno/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adam-pierno/support
Amory and Ben team up with NPR to take on Twitter Spaces. This bonus episode is a recording of ET's 11/30 livestream chat with meme experts Kenyatta Cheese (Know Your Meme), "meme librarian" Amanda Brennan and Garbage Day newsletter author Ryan Broderick.
Thursday, 15 July 2021, 12:30 – 2pm Interdisciplinary Panel - The Challenges of Integrating Interdisciplinarity in Academia A panel discussion linking to our first event, where experts in the field discuss the challenges of interdisciplinarity and Neurohumanities. The newly formed NeuroHumanities Networking Group is dedicated to providing a functional framework for postgraduates engaged or interested in interdisciplinary research and seeking to expand their network and knowledge base. The NeuroHumanities Networking Group is piloting its first 4-week series of online events over the summer, designed to foster connections within Trinity, hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub, hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub.Organised by Amelia McConville, School of English and in association with the Institute of Neuroscience, and Fiona Stout, Fiona Stout, School of Creative Arts , the series is supported by the Postgraduate Wellbeing & Community Fund and Professor Mani Ramaswami, Director of Trinity Institute of Neurosciences (TCIN). Attending all 4 sessions of the series is highly encouraged. About the organisers Amelia McConville is a PhD student conducting interdisciplinary research on visual poetry and poetics with Neurohumanities at the School of English and in association with the Institute of Neuroscience. Always fascinated by the overlap of art and science, she graduated with a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin in 2017, working in fundraising for the College before commencing doctoral research in 2018. Passionate about education, she works part-time with the Trinity Access Programmes and as a private tutor, and she is interested in yoga, film, music, and visual culture. Fiona Stout is currently an MLitt conducting interdisciplinary, neurohumanities research on the interconnective soft tissue matrix known as fascia and fluidity in the actor-body. Key areas of research include fascia, neuroscience, trauma, embodiment, flow-state, cellular mechanics, biotensegrity, and physiology. Fiona moved to Ireland from California in 2014, graduating with a BA in acting from The Lir in 2017, after which she re-certified as a yoga teacher and has continued to upskill with workshops and trainings ever since. She seeks to facilitate ease for her students and collaborators, empowering them to use their bodies in more fluid and fascia-friendly ways. Key inspirations in her work include Katy Bowman, Amanda Brennan, Lisa Feldman Barrett, John Sharkey, and Antonio Damasio. Find her on insta and twitch @missfiyoga.
In honor of Pride month we're talking about the most iconic queer witch out there, Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer! Joining us is Amanda Brennan, aka The Meme Librarian!
This week we're talking memes and their unique history with video games with special guest and meme librarian Amanda Brennan. After a deep dive into meme history, Fahey quizzes us on our video game meme knowledge, followed by a conversation about Resident Evil's big lady.
In this episode I speak with An Xiao Mina, author of Memes to Movements: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. We talk about the "chaos magic" created by meme wars, the need for CONTEXT creation online and how we have been making cat-GIFs for thousands of years.SHOW NOTES;Memes to Movemeents: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power, By An Xiao Mina Richard Dawkins on the internet's hijacking of the word ‘meme' - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes Amanda Brennan - https://memelibrarian.com / Meme librarian is a real job — and it's the best one on the Internet - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/21/tumblrs-meme-librarian-has-the-best-job-on-the-internet/ Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture , MIT Press - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/memes-digital-culture Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs, By Mark Dery - https://www.markdery.com/books/culture-jamming-hacking-slashing-and-sniping-in-the-empire-of-signs-2/ Cave Paintings in Lascaux France - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux Hall of Cats cave paintings -images - https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/268738302751070366/ The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum - https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu Ancient Romans of Pompeii Loved Street Art Too, By Henri Neuendorf - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-romans-of-pompeii-loved-street-art-too-195643 Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service - https://books.google.ca/books/about/Art_as_Activist.html?id=U_CCAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y China's river crab and grass-mud horse, Tactile Technology Collective - https://www.informationactivism.org/en/chinas-river-crab-and-grass-mud-horse.html Old Spice viral campaign - The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Your_Man_Could_Smell_Like K-pop fans are taking over 'White Lives Matter' and other anti-Black hashtags with memes and fancams of their favorite stars, By Alicia Lee, CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/kpop-bts-blackpink-fans-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html 30 Cutest Celebrity Cats - Emerald Catron Move over, A-listers: these celebrity cats are the real stars of the show. - https://bestlifeonline.com/cutest-celebrity-cats/ Coronavirus spawns viral TikTok dance about washing your hands, By Ben Cost - https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-spawns-viral-tiktok-dance-about-washing-your-hands/ Learning the Politics of “Digital Dissensus”, By An Xiao Mina - https://civichall.org/civicist/learning-the-politics-of-digital-dissensus/
Amanda Brennan is a meme librarian (internet culture researcher), tumblr fandom and social expert, and blogger. In our conversation we talked about growing up on the internet in the late 90's and early 2000's, local music scenes, how she got into meme research and working at Know Your Meme, the ins and outs of Tumblr, fandoms, work-life balance, and more. Enjoy! Follow her on Twitter: @continuants Check out her blog: memelibrarian.com/ Follow her Tumblr work: fandom.tumblr.com
David & Joe talk to Amanda Brennan, the trend expert and meme librarian at Tumblr, about the importance of memes, where the internet is headed, and what we can learn from teens online. Amanda Brennan is Tumblr’s internet librarian who currently leads their content and social teams. After graduating with her MLIS from Rutgers University, she began her career at Know Your Meme, researching the history of internet phenomena and niche subcultures. She has been at Tumblr since 2013 where she spearheaded The Fandometrics, Tumblr’s weekly ranking of entertainment fandoms on the platform, which Paste Magazine asserted should be "given a permanent place in pop culture’s critical metrics tool belt." She has spoken about internet history at conferences across the US , with topics ranging from Slender Man to cat videos, the latter of which she discussed in the BBC Four documentary How To Go Viral. She lives in New Jersey with her spouse and their three cats. Funny as Tech is a podcast about our messy relationship with technology. Hosted by tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo, the show looks at how emerging technology is altering our life in in so many profound ways. FunnyAsTech.com DavidRyanPolgar.com JoeLeonardo.com Info@FunnyAsTech.com @TechEthicist @ImJoeLeonardo
Digital entertainment program BUILD Series takes its popular and extensive live interview show to the next level, adding a new, daily morning talk show “BUILD Brunch," as BUILD Series continues its commitment to bring its fans closer to culture. Airing weekdays at 11am live on BUILDseries.com/Brunch, it will feature a roundtable of diverse, young and influential personalities speaking to breaking news, hot topics and the latest in entertainment. Samin Nosrat, award-winning author of the cookbook "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat," and Tumblr's Amanda Brennan join the table!
It's a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Dr. Lynne McNeill, assistant professor of English at Utah State University. We'll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite episodes of the program. We'll hear a segment from our conversation on Slender Man, with Amanda Brennan, Dr. Elizabeth Tucker, and Dr. Trevor J. Blank. Then we'll revisit a portion of our interview with Michael Poland and Jamie Farrell on the Yellowstone Supervolcano. And finally, we'll hear from commentor Gina Wickwar on dogs, Barbara Streisand, and cloning.
A private Facebook group of seltzer fans announces itself to the world. Group ambassador Amanda Brennan joins us to discuss seltzer lingo and her day job as Tumblr's librarian of memes. Today's matchup: Limited Edition Hal's New York Coffee Seltzer vs. coffee we put in a SodaStream.
Writing fanfic about your favorite fictional characters kissing goes back long before the internet. Alli and Jen interview Amanda Brennan, a meme librarian whose expertise in "shipping" (writing about fictional relationships) takes us back to the 1800s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Social media platform Tumblr is a hive of online activity where users share images, GIFS or whatever else takes their fancy. If what they're sharing becomes popular enough it reaches the status of meme: an idea that spreads virally throughout the culture of the internet. The Weekend's Shaun D Wilson spoke to Amanda Brennan, a Content and Community Associate at Tumblr, who catalogues and archives what Tumblr communities are into - that's led to her being called a Meme Librarian.
In this episode, we interview Amanda Brennan, AKA the Meme Librarian. Topics covered include candle fandom, archiving the internet, why people tag their Tumblr posts with whole long sentences, and tweenage Hanson fanfic. We also respond to a listener comment from Elsa, who has some concerns with the way we've been talking about the interactions between fans and major media companies.