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 * Viral Video** = A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites and email.

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Viral Culture… Before The Internet] http://boingboing.net/2015/07/30/whats-it-like-to-go-viral.html How many views are needed in YouTube to go viral?

Recommended Listening
TED Radio Hour

Quotes
Going viral has more to do with the receptivity of the audience than the people doing the sharing, tagging and endorsing. - Duncan Watts, [|A Scientific View of Why Ideas Go Viral]

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Eagle and Kid Film students get an assignment: "Create a YouTube hoax video that gets 100,000 views. They got nearly 42 million." http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwalker/how-golden-eagle-snatches-kid-ruled-the-internet media type="youtube" key="CE0Q904gtMI" height="315" width="560"