This paper uses different digital research methods to conduct three small surveys around an ongoing public social event, Lockdown in Shanghai.A brief research of trends in the hotness of related topics using search engine tools and social media topic analysis tools, as well as a look at relevant online news to contextualize the event.Using a set of memes created in the context of Shanghai lockdown as an example, to interpret what Shifman (2014) writes in his book Memes in Digital Culture abou...