On 05/09/2012 10:31 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 10:45:33PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
On 05/08/2012 05:52 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
The curiously absent question is why there should be "social media" in the
first place, and 'media' in general.
Lascaux.
Notice that memes and image macros are a regression to pictorial signs.
Image macros are an indexical and ironic discourse of interrelated
images put into tension with text. I'm not sure that images represent a
regression, post-dating language as they do.
- Rob.
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