What’s So Cool About The Harlem Shake?

Ethan Zuckerman writes about memes turned viral like Psy’s Gangnam-Style and Harlem Shake, and asks an important question:

…what makes a dance video parodies a highly participatory and cross-cultural type of meme, i.e., one where many people from different backgrounds and nations choose to remix it.
- Corporate America and the Harlem Shake: Perfect Together.

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