Abstract
Abstract The omnipresence of the internet in the twenty-first century has brought with it an explosion of new artistic media, including memes, viral videos, social media posts, and other distinctive manifestations of internet culture. These new media are largely participatory, ephemeral, and even anonymous, yet they offer important new opportunities for artistic expression. This chapter highlights their ethical significance along three main dimensions. First, the chapter focuses on how the everyday aesthetic choices afforded by online curation, filters, and internet aesthetics provide new opportunities for the expression and creation of individual identities. Second, the chapter surveys the ways that internet memes and other participatory media contribute to the formation and expression of communities with shared values. Third, the chapter discusses ethical challenges associated with ownership and attribution of instances of these media: Can anyone claim ownership of a meme? And what might such ownership consist in?
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