THE MEMES FANDOM: MAGNIFYING MEMES AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE (original) (raw)

This paper tries to highlight the uprising memes phenomenon as a media of expressions through its distinctive packaging as well as an example of contemporary culture product. Memes can be conceived encompassing cultural boundaries through its copy-fidelity, fecundity and longevity characteristics. Carrying creative words alignment, engaging visual look, and ear catchy tunes; memes certainly act more than just a humor that easily disperse through internet. Memes enactment as a part of language learning activity inside classroom may offer different atmosphere. It can be taken as a mixed bowl where digital technology and language creativity (caption writing) meet up since digitization is unavoidable. Like it or not, teaching and learning process has to renew itself by having through an intertwine with any latest development of various field of knowledge. This paper may serve as an additional idea about how to engage students more in an interesting learning environment by utilizing technology advance. Commonly known for having short attention span which last than 10 seconds, our students (the Digital Natives) need a more resourceful way of learning a language, in addition to the importance of gaining as many as possible enthusiasms from the learning participants. Thus, it can be assumed that memes employment yields as an affinity space for our students to learn language.