Week 4 Lecture - Memes

Josh Hug, February 18th, 2025

Materials

CS 195 Readings

• Required Clearview.AI: 'Access My Information'.
• Recommended [Ed post] Elizabeth Kolbert. Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds. The New Yorker. 2017.
• Recommended [Ed post] John Herrman. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not. New York Times. 2021.
• Recommended [Ed post] Taylor Lorenz. How ‘Skibidi Toilet’ became one of the most valuable franchises in Hollywood. Washington Post. 2024.
• Optional CGP Gray. This Video Will Make You Angry. YouTube. 2016.
• Optional Heath, Bell, Sternberg. Emotional selection in memes: the case of urban legends. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (APA). 2001.
• Optional Shullenberger. Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel's French Connection (very weird/questionable read, but interesting). Cyborgology, The Society Pages. 2016.

CS H195 Readings

• Required Clearview.AI: 'Access My Information'.
• Recommended [Ed post] Elizabeth Kolbert. Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds. The New Yorker. 2017.
• Recommended [Ed post] John Herrman. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not. New York Times. 2021.
• Recommended [Ed post] Taylor Lorenz. How ‘Skibidi Toilet’ became one of the most valuable franchises in Hollywood. Washington Post. 2024.
• Optional CGP Gray. This Video Will Make You Angry. YouTube. 2016.
• Optional Heath, Bell, Sternberg. Emotional selection in memes: the case of urban legends. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (APA). 2001.
• Optional Shullenberger. Mimesis, Violence, and Facebook: Peter Thiel's French Connection (very weird/questionable read, but interesting). Cyborgology, The Society Pages. 2016.