Tag Archives: New Media

“Invisible Audiences”

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What is are “Invisible Audiences”?

 

Invisible Audiences: Digital objects are double articulations, created for a particular audience but with the knowledge that they can and will spread to an unknowable audience wherever the Internet is available. In other words, though content can be created for a specific viewership or people, it may spread to these invisible audiences wherever it can be viewed on the web.

 

Citation: Sean Rintel. “Crisis Memes: The Importance of Templatability to Internet Culture and Freedom of Expression”.

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“Searchability”

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What is Searchability?

Searchability describes the state of being searchable or the extent to which something can be searched. In our context however, searchability is one of the four features that contribute to memeticism. Via search engines objects of popular and folk culture are easily found, especially as meta-data tags improves the indexing and curation of digital objects. As such both raw materials and templates for generating objects are easily found.

Citation: Sean Rintel. “Crisis Memes: The Importance of Templatability to Internet Culture and Freedom of Expression”.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/searchability