Assignment+Tips

The assignment has three stages:

1) Proposal: You should form a group (about 3-4 people) and brainstorm what kinds of things might be an interesting attempt at creating an Internet meme. Please create your own group wiki to help organize and present your thoughts at this time.

To help with this, each member of the group should review of one of the episodes of Know Your Meme (http://www.knowyourmeme.com/episodes) where they deconstruct a given meme and provide some humorous insight as to why its memetic. Outline this in the proposal as background research.

2) Development and Release:

Before the presentation on Nov. 18, you should develop and release to the world your meme. Consider ways to best track its dissemination and effect. We'll talk more about this as the course progresses.

3) Presentation and Analysis:

In labs on the 18th, we'll be having brief "science-fair" style presentations (max 6 minutes) delivered to either Norman or Mike in small sessions, where you'll present your process and any results (don't worry if your meme didn't go viral - that's OK - just show evidence of what you did to make it so.) A 3-page analysis should accompany the presentation, posted to your group wiki, along with any relevant information about the development and dissemination process and any reaction you received.