To my knowledge, there are no scientific surveys as of yet on the addictiveness of Internet meme-making. But one might make a comparison to compulsive gambling, another pursuit in which a wager is made and the results are then ...
And Then There's This by"Bill Wasik"
Breaking news, fresh gossip, tiny scandals, trumped-up crises-every day we are distracted by a culture that rings our doorbell and runs away. Stories spread wildly and die out in mere days, to be replaced by still more stories with ever shorter life spans. Through the Internet the news cycle has been set spinning even faster now that all of us can join the fray: anyone on a computer can spread a story almost as easily as The New York Times, CNN, or People. As media amateurs grow their audience, they learn to think like the pros, using the abundant data that the Internet offers-hit counters, most e-mailed lists, YouTube views, download tallies-to hone their own experiments in viral blowup. And Then There's This is Bill Wasik's journey along the unexplored frontier of the twenty-first century's rambunctious new-media culture. He covers this world in part as a journalist, following \
And Then There's This
By:"Bill Wasik"
Published on 2009-06-11 by Penguin
BOOKS ID : cLCHP91oR_MC
Ebook Title : And Then There's This
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ISBN_13 Code : 9781101057704
ISBN_10 Code : 110105770X
Book Print Type : BOOK
Rank : 11 for keyword gambling meme
Book Author :"Bill Wasik"
Publisher : Penguin
Book Pages Count : 208
Print Type : BOOK
Book's Categories :"Social Science"
Books Language : en
Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED_FOR_ACCESSIBILITY
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