This document discusses the risks of misinformation spreading online and proposes ways to build resilience. It notes how memes, fake news, and copycat architecture can transmit cultural ideas rapidly. The document advocates staying aware of misinformation while also seeing potential for memes to positively spread social messages in the future through protests or education. It concludes by framing the "First Aid Kit for living with the risk of misinformation" as a capstone project.

1. Design for Living with
Viral Misinformation

2. Memes
Misinformation
Fake News
Post-truth
Internet Memes
Cultural Transmission
Imitation
Cultural Viruses
Media

3. It is clearly smart for
newspapers to expand online.
But the danger in doing
that is the temptation to
gravitate towards getting
the most clicks.”
“
Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

4. Publishers Audiences

5. MEMES

6. Memes
The Internet Reality

7. Copycat buildings in China:
Architectual styles as memes
Tianducheng, near Shanghai, China

8. Shanghai Minhang People's Court
Mixed with the the White House and the
Capitol Building in Washington.

9. Western-style building is a
potent symbol for their
ascension and aspiration for
global supremacy and the
middle-class comforts of
the “First World”.
Bianca Bosker, “Original Copies: Architectural
Mimicry in Contemporary China”
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London’s Tower Bridge in Suzhou

10. The Kinspiracy: A magazine,
a lifestyle, and a genre of
photography as memes

11. Pepe the Frog

12. Donald Trump; Misinformation;
The presidential election in 2016

13. Misunderstanding,
Discrimination, Hatred,
Lies, Falsehood...

14. Stay Aware; Stay Sane

15. Capstone project:
The First Aid Kit for living
with the risk of misinformation

20. What is the potential of memes as tools
and mediums for social improvement
such as anarchist protests or educational
promotions in the future?