THE SOCIAL REALITY 14 december 2015
PARIS
29 november 2015 Photo: Jim Watson AFP/Getty Images
No.4
President Barack Obama laid a single rose at a memorial for the victims of the Paris attacks on Monday shortly after arriving in the city, visiting the Bataclan, the concert hall where the deadliest attacks took place during the onslaught some two weeks ago. Obama, who is in town for international talks to curb climate change, was joined at the site by French President Francois Hollande not long after Air Force One touched down around midnight local time. After solemnly placing the rose among the flowers and candles at the makeshift memorial, Obama stood silently in tribute, his head bowed and his hands clasped in front of him. Afterwards he walked away with his arms around Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who was also present. He did not make remarks. Obama has made a concerted effort to show U.S. solidarity with France after the Nov. 13 attacks, which killed 130 people. He and Hollande agreed during a meeting in Washington last week to ramp up military operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and coordinate intelligence on domestic threats..
INTRO
Social media is taken a bigger role in life than ever before. The Dutch spent approximately 33,5 hours online per month. But what is there to see online? Is it valuable content or just nonsense? I analyzed the news photographs and took one component of it and searched what social media has to say about this particular part. This often leads to big contradictions in the amount of posts. On the front-page we see a picture of Obama visiting the memorial at theatre ‘Le Bataclan’. Obama is known world wide and also really well known and used by Tumblr. Almost 2 million hits on ‘Obama meme’.
Worldwide Obama memes Tumblr 29 November 2015
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news posts about Obama in Paris that day tumblr memes about Obama