short paper 140

Internet animation: After broadcast, after narrative

How do new technologies offer new opportunities—and limits—for animation? What are the defining

aspects of animated Internet humor, and how do current events dictate those? In what ways do these

animations help globalize certain constructions of animation and of humor? Or, what is a meme

anyway?

Select an internet animation (don’t forget to provide the url!) and consider some of these questions in

the course of an argumentative, 5-page essay, including a title and a concrete thesis statement.

Double-space, using 1’’ margins and a 12-pt. font.

This is not a research essay. However, if you use outside sources it is necessary to cite those sources

correctly, following a style guide such as the MLA Handbook. As I write on the syllabus,

Whenever students take an idea or a passage from another author, they must acknowledge

their debt both by using quotation marks where appropriate and by proper referencing with

footnotes or citations.