Amish Community

            In this week’s blog, the RELS 480 class will discuss the use of authority. According to Merriam-Webster, authority is defined as “power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior” (Webster, 2018, pg. 1). When searching for memes online, we need to understand who is creating these comical pictures. Luckily for our study over the Amish, we do not have to look any further but the internet itself.             The internet dominates the Amish culture. In last week’s blog, I poised a quote stating that “the Amish came to mean a great deal to the media and their consumers, not because they altered their way of living, but because the world around them changed” (Umble & Weaver-Zercher, 2008, pg. 12). Since the media is fascinated with this particular culture, the Amish cannot and will not escape from the media’s interest. The first meme stating, “What’s it ...