{"id":209080,"date":"2021-12-09T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=209080"},"modified":"2022-02-15T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:20:55","slug":"what-does-america-meme-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2021\/12\/09\/what-does-america-meme-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What does America MEME to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We want to know what \u2018America\u2019 means to you and are hosting a contest to help capture the amazing diversity of perspectives, experiences, and ideas of America held by MSU students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make a meme that says to people:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u2018This is my America\u2019 and we\u2019ll share it with the campus community!&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Submit your meme here:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/memeamerica\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/memeamerica<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deadline for submission is\u00a0<strong>9:00am EST on February 1st, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fellow students will vote on the memes that best capture what America is for MSU students, today. The top 10 memes will win their makers $$$ prizes, a badge, free public speaking training, and eternal bragging rights. The top five of those ten will win additional $$$ and the opportunity to participate in a discussion about their memes.<\/p>\n<h2>AWARDS:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Ten (10) MSU Student Meme Contest winners will receive an award of $100 gift card and will be invited to receive free public speaking training<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Five (5) of these winners will be invited to participate in a public discussion currently slated for April 6 at 6:00pm. Those who participate in \u201cFlipping the Classroom: Montclair State Students School their Professors\u201d will receive an ADDITIONAL $400 gift card (total prize equaling $500)<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">All ten winners will be invited to a free public speaking workshop to be held in March<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">Those participating in the &#8220;Experience Montclair&#8221; program will earn a badge for participating, whether they win or not!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>SUGGESTED READINGS\/WATCHINGS:<\/h2>\n<p>What Defines a Meme? (Smithsonian Magazine)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/what-defines-a-meme-1904778\/\">https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/what-defines-a-meme-1904778\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do memes suddenly matter in politics? (Engadget)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-03-11-political-memes-michael-bloomberg.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-03-11-political-memes-michael-bloomberg.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are LOLCats and Internet Memes Art? (PBS Digital Studios)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b9Zyswk07vg&amp;ab_channel=PBSIdeaChannel\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b9Zyswk07vg&amp;ab_channel=PBSIdeaChannel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Know Your Meme<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/\">https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memes, Fair Use, and Privacy (The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oif.ala.org\/oif\/?p=16873\">https:\/\/www.oif.ala.org\/oif\/?p=16873<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>QUESTIONS?<\/h2>\n<p>Contact Professor Emery (<a href=\"mailto:emerye@montclair.edu)\">emerye@montclair.edu)<\/a>\u00a0or Professor Kaczmarek (<a href=\"mailto:kaczmarekc@montclair.edu\">kaczmarekc@montclair.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This contest and forum are made possible by the generous support of the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><em>*All submissions to this contest will be considered public domain and will be expected to be free of copyright infringement concerns under the fair use doctrine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to know what \u2018America\u2019 means to you and are hosting a contest to help capture the amazing diversity of perspectives, experiences, and ideas of America held by MSU students. Make a meme that says to people:\u00a0\u2018This is my America\u2019 and we\u2019ll share it with the campus community!&#8217; Submit your meme here:\u00a0https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/memeamerica Deadline for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":209087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209080"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209304,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209080\/revisions\/209304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}