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Meow the 41st – Curiosity Killed the Cat

Curious Kitten

But satisfaction brought it back. If proverbs are to be believed, there is obviously no danger in doing investigations and research. Apparently cats have six, seven, or nine lives depending on where they live, and, so by extension, research dealing with cats also receives these lives, does it not? Well, yes.

Curiosity Killed the Cat (by coconut88123)

The Meow Factor, a research project dedicated to research on cats in the media, online and offline, is curious about what cat experts think about cat content. For the research project, qualitative interviews with researchers and professionals working in the fields of media, communication, literature, biology, marketing, and more are now under way.

Though curiosity might kill the cat, those questions will certainly not.

Questions concerning cat content

  1. Where do you see the appeal of cat content?
  2. Why do cats get media coverage?
  3. Why are cats so successful on the internet?
  4. Where do you see the future of cat content on the internet?

Some general information

  1. What is your job?
  2. What is your connection to cat content in your job?
  3. Why did you decide to do the research on cat (content)?
  4. Which effects of cat content have you noticed in people’s responses to what you do?
  5. Feel free to leave a comment …

The picture was taken from http://coconut88123.deviantart.com/art/Curiosity-Killed-the-Cat-Typography-476134943

Featured image: Julián Cantarelli, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Edith Podhovnik (October 28, 2015). Meow the 41st – Curiosity Killed the Cat. Meow Factor. Retrieved January 13, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rdqd


Edith Podhovnik

a linguist researching language #purrieties and #meowlogism-s •alumna of SwanseaUni • loves cats • writes about cats • author of the book "Purrieties of Language. How We Talk about Cats Online

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  1. sforim says:

    I have missed your posts! 8. I certainly feel that it helps making connections. At work, I have received a bonus or two with my supervisor who is a cat person. She is not my supervisor anymore, but we still talk about cats every time we meet. Cats unite people.

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