Summary Of Tide Pod Challenge By Handayani Fitrie

At the start of 2018, it seemed like everyone had lost all faith in the people of my generation, and it was because of memes. YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded the controversial video in which he showed an actual corpse to his young, impressionable audience. And, news media was blowing up over the idiotic “Tide Pod Challenge” that was plaguing social media websites. Because of these events, I wanted to prove that memes were not just silly jokes that young people like to share with each other. But, they are a cultural phenomena that has a huge influence in our culture and should be treated with that implication in mind.
I chose to write about this topic without much personal investment. I honestly didn’t feel strongly about this topic, but in the

The second source that I researched, "The Use of Meme as a Representation of Public Opinion in Social Media: A Case Study of Meme about Bekasi in Path and Twitter." by Handayani Fitrie seemed to be what I needed in my research paper. The author makes an interesting point about how people can use the power of memes to voice their opinion about society. He uses examples from the people of Bekasi, a metropolitan city in Indonesia, who often create and share memes that criticized the city’s infrastructure, political issues, and other shortcomings. In short, the author is trying to make clear is that memes can be used by people to state the public opinion in a way that can be spread from person to person. My favorite thing that the author stated was that “Sophisticated gadget and internet connection make people tend to share everything they see in their circle of friends in social media without any serious intention.” (Fitrie 338). I think that this will be an excellent source to discuss in my own paper that will show that people do not necessarily agree with the message that the meme is sending just because they have like/shared

Much of this book discuss topics that were relevant to my research question, while providing a plethora of examples to better illustrate the author’s viewpoint.. That questions that this source strives to answers is not “why do memes affect culture?”, but rather it answers the fundamental questions such as “what is a meme?” and “how do memes work”. For this reason, I will use this source when creating background information in my paper. The author goes into depth about what defines a meme, and also studied Richard Dawkins when formulating his own definition, which was ultimately “a particular idea presented as a written text, image, language ‘move’, or some other unit of cultural ‘stuff’” (Shifman 13). I felt like the author’s goal was to explain the ins and outs of meme to an audience of people who are out of touch in meme culture. For this reason, I dub this book “Meme Culture for Dummies, 2008 Edition”. I concluded that this source doesn’t provide very many new ideas or theories that explain how memes affect us, but rather it is a very thorough set of guidelines that is useful in understanding the fundamentals of