“Damn I Didn’t Know Y’all Was Sad? I Thought It Was Just Memes”: Irony, Memes and Risk in Internet Depression Culture

Just when you thought it was safe.

Teachers today have brought computers out of the isolation of labs and into the main learning area of the classroom, enabling access to the web for their students on demand. Whatever the merits of the so-called Digital Education Revolution, we now have computers, notebooks or PCs owned by the school or students, in classrooms , in most cases now playing a vitally important role in teaching and ...

Depression & just what I thought.

I remember...it was December.

William Osler is quoted as saying, "Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life-the poetry of the commonplace, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs."(1) A family physician reflects how he continues to derive sustenance from having cared ...

Insights into Internet Memes

Internet memes are phenomena that rapidly gain popularity or notoriety on the Internet. Often, modifications or spoofs add to the profile of the original idea thus turning it into a phenomenon that transgresses social and cultural boundaries. It is commonly assumed that Internet memes spread virally but scientific evidence as to this assumption is scarce. In this paper, we address this issue an...

JuSt When yOu thOuGht it WaS Safe a paSSiOn fOr riSk ManaGeMent

The SGS risk management process is implemented in full compliance with international standards e. g. ISO 31000, as a minimum requirement. The SGS team is committed to improving the delivery of risk management in terms of statistical processes, facilitated workshops for identification and assessment, development of better graphical communications of risk, more calibrated assessments, off-setting...