viral media

Media that is passed from person to person.

Viral video – Video that becomes popular via Internet sharing

Viral marketing – Marketing strategy that uses existing social networks to promote a product

Viral license – Copyleft and copyright licenses

List of Internet phenomena

Mainstream media – Mass news media that influence many people

Media circus – Phrase describing excessive media coverage

Sensationalism – Type of editorial tactic used in mass media

Meme – Thought or idea that can be shared, in analogy to a gene

Fad – Collective behavior that achieves intense short-lived popularity and then fades away

Real life – Phrase separating "reality" from "fantasy" or "online"

Transitive relation – Type of binary relation

Tony D. Sampson – British critical theorist (born 1964) (thesis and book Virality)

Computer virus – Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread

Network science – Academic field

Compartmental models in epidemiology – Type of mathematical model used for infectious diseases