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viral media

viral media noun: media that is passed from person to person.

Noun

viral media (uncountable)

  1. Media that is passed from person to person.
    • The ecology of networked media call for juxtapositions that suggest the rhizomatic connections between, for instance, intellectual property (IP) rights and viral media, or neo-liberalism and social network sites (SNS).2008, Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly, New Media: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164

Origin of viral media

Attributed to Douglas Rushkoff.

Questions about viral media

What does viral media mean?
Viral media means media that is passed from person to person.
What part of speech is viral media?
Viral media is a noun.

Words near viral media in the dictionary

  1. viral envelope
  2. viral envelopes
  3. viral load
  4. viral loads
  5. viral marketing
  6. viral media
  7. viral sex
  8. viral vector
  9. viral vectors
  10. viralities
  11. virality

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