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Today's episode is about randonauting, a phenomena that has gained popularity in online spaces, particualry Twitter. While randonauting, you travel to a random location sent to you by a bot, with the intention of exploring the hidden places around you. Randonauting can serve as an example for folklorists of how digital spaces create offline ostensive practices. By using random data points, randonauting allows for an individual to forge their own complicated simulacrum trip by creating their own meaning out of a random environment. Similarly, randonauting shows how digital memetics move offline. The rules of the game are learned through social media, are enacted in real life, and are often brought back to the digital sphere. In this regard, randonauting displays the intricate relationship that memetics and ostension have in conjunction with digital and “IRL” constructed personas.
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Today's episode is about randonauting, a phenomena that has gained popularity in online spaces, particualry Twitter. While randonauting, you travel to a random location sent to you by a bot, with the intention of exploring the hidden places around you. Randonauting can serve as an example for folklorists of how digital spaces create offline ostensive practices. By using random data points, randonauting allows for an individual to forge their own complicated simulacrum trip by creating their own meaning out of a random environment. Similarly, randonauting shows how digital memetics move offline. The rules of the game are learned through social media, are enacted in real life, and are often brought back to the digital sphere. In this regard, randonauting displays the intricate relationship that memetics and ostension have in conjunction with digital and “IRL” constructed personas.