ABOUT
In this report, which will hereon be known as the 'Awesome Dossier', I will be diving into the murky waters of cult internet blogs and narcissism in social networking whilst being out of my depth by attempting a similar idea of my own. Firstly, I shall be discussing the interests of social gathering sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as conducting experiments to see what kind of illustrative characters can be made based on a random individual's trivial life stories and hourly status updates from these sites. Then a look into experimental narratives and possibly some surrealist writing and how I could create an interesting comic strip or illustration based on these methods.
RELEVANCE
Since this is an experiment as well as a report on social networking and generative systems I suppose a broad range of people may take interest. For starters I am aiming to get a large internet audience to take interest since that's the aim of my project, to try and create my own form of 'keyboard cat' or 'failblog' site. As well as that it could be of interest to internet researchers, advertisers, web designers and anyone who wants to be in the loop of internet humour (not sure who they could be).
PLAN
I'll be researching into blogs and websites that have large cult followings but all because of one particular gag, quote, image or song and how it became such a hit. Finally I will then use everything I have learned from this and attempt to create my own form of cult blog/site using the character idea I had for twitter speak or perhaps something much more interesting will occur.
CHAPTERS
1 - An introduction on internet culture.
2 - Looking into cult sites and social networking.
3 - The experiment brief.
4 - Research into experimental narratives and surrealist writing.
5 - The experiment in action.
6 - Results.
7 - Final Conclusion.
REFERENCES
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.twitter.com/
http://manbabies.com/
http://failblog.org/
http://www.fmylife.com/
http://playhimoffkeyboardcat.com/
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
http://sturgeonface.com/
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dolphin_ punch
http://www.thingsbearslove.com/
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Main_ Page
http://domonomnom.tumblr.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/home
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1198460/As-Hollywoods-leading-actors-start-looking-eerily-similar-real-men.html
http://www.hicksville.co.nz/PerfectPlanet.htm
www.americanelf.com
[I'm still defining certain aspects of my report so it's not 100percent at this moment. A big thank you to those of you who gave me your links to related articles and sites to help me out with this report]
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Hi Adam,
ReplyDeleteGoogle ‘internet memes’. That’s the technical term for what you are describing.
This is really interesting and I think you will be able to find quite a lot on it when you start looking. I think you need to find an article on it to reference in your abstract to lend it some gravitas.
I think you have too much in here at the moment and need to edit.
My suggestion would be to focus in on how internet memes work. You could do a review/analysis of most popular ones in last year. You could try to boil down the essence of what makes them work and then using this ‘menu’, try to create your own. You could then release it into the wilds of the WWW and track/analyse responses. This might lead you to reconsider what you had learnt from the reading.
Your target audience would be ad agencies. Look at the Mother project – a great eg of a creative company actively seeking crazy viral campaigns to promote themselves… Look at the Bring Back Wispa Facebook campaign… there is a real market for this stuff.
Perhaps your question could be sthg like: ‘The awesome dossier: constructing the ultimate internet meme’.
Catherine
Also - you refer to generative systems, social networking, cult internet blogs, experimental narratives... these are all different things - you need to focus on one. I personally think the memes thing is most interesting and would allow for your own visual experiments, but let's discuss!
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