{"id":3039,"date":"2012-05-18T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:43:37","slug":"rb202-memeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2012\/05\/18\/rb202-memeology\/","title":{"rendered":"RB202: Memeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ROFLCon III by Scott Beale, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/laughingsquid\/7166434746\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7086\/7166434746_23e76cded9.jpg\" alt=\"ROFLCon III\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/podcasts\/mediaberkman\/radioberkman\/2012-05-18_roflcon.mp3\"><strong>or download<\/strong><\/a><strong> | &#8230;also in <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/podcasts\/mediaberkman\/radioberkman\/2012-05-18_roflcon.ogg\">Ogg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the Berkman Center co-sponsored the third \u2013 \u00a0and, we learned, final! \u2013 \u00a0ROFLCon. For the n00bz, ROFLCon is a conference named after the acronym for &#8220;rolling on the floor, laughing&#8221; and devoted to celebrating internet culture. Friend of the Show Tim Hwang co-founded the event in 2008 when he and Christina Xu invited Tron Guy to Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>Both ROFLCon and internet culture have evolved since then, so we sent producer Frances Harlow on location to ask attendees, &#8220;What are memes, and do they really matter?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Listen up! Comment on the show! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/radioberkman\">Tweet<\/a> us!<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=298096088&amp;s=143441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/AudioBerkman\/Files\/iTunes_iClick.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/radioberkman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/AudioBerkman\/Files\/feed-icon32x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Subscribe to Radio Berkman<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference Section:<\/strong><br \/>\nCreative Commons licensed photo by Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/laughingsquid\/\">Scott Beale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s episode produced and edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prx.org\/users\/68930-fharlow\">Frances Harlow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen: or download | &#8230;also in Ogg Two weeks ago, the Berkman Center co-sponsored the third \u2013 \u00a0and, we learned, final! \u2013 \u00a0ROFLCon. For the n00bz, ROFLCon is a conference named after the acronym for &#8220;rolling on the floor, laughing&#8221; and devoted to celebrating internet culture. Friend of the Show Tim Hwang co-founded the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,681,3742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-berkman-center","category-radioberkman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}