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Sep212011

Planking as Social Imaginary

DateWednesday, September 21, 2011 at 9:17AM

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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