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A series on digital collective memory: how online communities create & maintain their own micro-mythologies.

Other Internet The Lore Zone Introduction: 9999 Principal Researchers Tiger Dingsun & Libby Marrs Advisors Aaron Z. Lewis, Toby Shorin, Kara Kittel For decades, researchers have studied how online communities form shared identities and beliefs. But what about shared memories? This series explores Lore: the new modes of self-mythologization developed within network media, and the forms of history and canon stored within media artifacts that online groups produce. The memes we encounter on clearnet feeds are usually parts of larger stories, stemming from semi-private sites more conducive to worl

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