Influyendo en el ciberespacio con humor: imemes y otros fenómenos

Abstract

One of the main ways to make social commentary is by humoristic media. The technology on Internet allows an efficient transmission of such commentaries by linking it directly, and offers tools to create and distribute new messages. The imemes, that is, everything which is retransmitted and modified by the users, is one of the ways that allows retransmitting social critics with added sense of humor. It is important to study and to identify already known by the web communities phenomena, as well as to discover new phenomena when we are creating or facing imemes with social and political agenda. Among these phenomena we should consider, the Poe’s law, the Streisand effect, the hoaxes, the resignifying, and the forced, ascended and discredited memes. Not taking these phenomena into account, or doing it naively, might lead to counterproductive actions when trying to create, to use or to counter imemes.