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Wednesday
Sep212011

Planking as Social Imaginary

What exactly are we doing when we upload pictures of ourselves lying flat on an escalator hand rail in the local JC Penny? Is it more like lolcatz or wikipedia? I'd say both. "Performative Memes" constitute a social imaginary.

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