{"id":1708,"date":"2013-01-19T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2013-01-19T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T20:21:08","slug":"going-viral-may-be-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/going-viral-may-be-contagious\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Viral: It May Be Catching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/428095_479914812044880_1169860447_n7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1748\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/428095_479914812044880_1169860447_n7-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/428095_479914812044880_1169860447_n7-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/428095_479914812044880_1169860447_n7-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/428095_479914812044880_1169860447_n7.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwo girls and a puppy \u2013 what&#8217;s not to Like? Along with the rest of the world, we&#8217;ve been enjoying watching the story of our former colleague whose daughters&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Twogirlsandapuppy?fref=ts\">plea for a puppy<\/a> attracted more than a million \u2013 more than 4 million, actually\u00a0 \u2013 Likes on Facebook. Four million is a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s fascinating, too, is that the story of this exercise in virality is now exhibiting a contagious nature of its own, advancing across species in the manner of the flu:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> from social media to mainstream TV (doesn&#8217;t get much more mainstream than this <a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/facebook-plea-lands-kids-dog-184627715--abc-news-parenting.html\">segment from Wednesday&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221;<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>through the blogosphere (to whit!) to <a href=\"http:\/\/theramblingamateur.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/twogirlsandapuppy-and-20-hours.html\">sermon point<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>via serious journalism to, if you can believe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/01\/the-viral-media-prof-whose-kids-got-1-million-facebook-likes-and-a-puppy\/267338\/\">The Atlantic<\/a> this morning, future scholarly analysis and, likely, publication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ryan was the director of the writing center at St. Norbert until the family moved to New England this summer. Lovers of irony will note that he is also a prominent figure in the emerging field of the digital humanities, blogging on the topic as Prof Hacker for <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/\">The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>. So not only was he in no position to be surprised by the power of social media, but he now sees\u00a0 a legitimate subject for study within his own home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/264092_431457323592762_2023816070_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1719\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/264092_431457323592762_2023816070_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>And just to wrap things up, his family yesterday embraced a new member, Millie the million Likes puppy, rescued from a Long Island animal shelter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two girls and a puppy \u2013 what&#8217;s not to Like? 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