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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Memes"”.
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Control, Devices, Society, and Memes
<p>“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This is Newton’s Third Law of Motion. According to Newton, whenever objects A and B interact with each other, they exert forces upon each other. In this thesis I suggest that in art the artist and the audience both exert forces. …
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Memes to Cope and Communicate
… who volunteered to participate and create memes. It was found that meme creation lowered negative affect and that communication worked well for those who create memes around topics that are relatable or descriptive.</p>
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Seizing the memes of production : political memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
… in Puerto Rico and the diaspora deploy internet memes for political critique. In this work, I analyze three case studies focused on how Puerto Rican groups and individuals use internet memes to express political discontent, make calls to action, engage in catharsis, and seek political change. The …
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Modeling Memes: A Memetic View of Affordance Learning
… meme evolution. First, a formal definition of memes was proposed that balanced both ontological adequacy and empirical observability. Based on this definition, a systems model for meme evolution was synthesized from Shannon Information Theory and elements of Bandura's Social Cognitive Learning …
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PEPE’S POWER: INTERNET MEMES, CONSTITUTIVE RHETORIC, AND POLITICAL COMMUNITIES
Internet memes cannot be manufactured by any one individual. These artifacts are best defined as bodies of work that manufacture and distribute meaning online. Internet memes persuade politically-motivated individuals to join and stay together using common memetic logics. Using Limor Shifman’s …
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Survival of the Fittest: Persistent Memes and Their Victorian Environments
… looks at Victorian adaptations of three key memes--narratives that are inherited and changed through a process of cultural evolution--and the nineteenth century cultural-historical conditions that produced those changes. Instead of focusing on issues of fidelity to originals, I read literary …
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Not just a joke : rape culture in Internet memes about #MeToo
… of sexual violence in humorous Internet memes about #MeToo. Applying an interdisciplinary lens, the thesis combines feminist scholarship on discourse, affect, humour, rape culture and online misogyny in order to provide a contribution to the field of feminist digital media studies.;I …
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Humor no ensino de física: o uso de memes na avaliação da aprendizagem
… atividades avaliativas que se utilizam de memes, produzindo assim um material que está mais próximo do contexto social da maioria dos estudantes. Para isso foi feita uma retrospectiva do Ensino de Física, procurando correlações entre o humor, o riso e a aprendizagem. Investigamos como são …
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Internet Memes as Instruments of Subversion in the Context of Islam and Muslims
This research investigates the nature of internet memes as instruments of subversion in the context of Islam and Muslims. For the purpose of this research, internet memes including Twitter hashtags have been conceived as idea units. The study employed network analysis to examine roughly 208,000 …
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Not Angry but Angy: The Rhetorical Effects of Non-Standard Language in Memes
… and is popular in what are called internet “memes.” Though the definition of a “meme” can vary, the term can be used to refer to pieces of culture that are remixed and disseminated by internet users. This thesis identifies patterns of non-standard language in memes to demonstrate that these …
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The semantics of emojis and memes: understanding meaning- making among social media users
There is no doubt that the use of emojis and memes within computer-mediated communication (CMC) on social media platforms like Facebook has become an essential part of how people communicate online (see Thurlow 2018; Thurlow and Jaroski 2020; Barbieri et al 2016; Bai et al 2019 and Thurlow and Dü …
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ALT-RIGHT OF THE_DONALD AND AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISTS ON REDDIT: INTERNET MEMES TO BUILD COMMUNITY
… forum called TheDonald.win. I selected memes and the comments around them to build the analysis. The second aspect of this thesis examines authoritarian communist discourse on Reddit. The leftist community splintered when r/socialism banned a community member because the person made …
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Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
This research has analysed the role of Internet memes in the contemporary Russian alternative discourse. It has identified memes as the Internet common language that users exploit to communicate on all topics and also utilise as the mind-bombs to influence the political discourse. This project …
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It's All in a Meme: A Content Analysis of Memes Posted to 2012 Presidential Election Facebook Pages
… understand how Democrats and Republicans design memes, use traditional media framing, and how memes fit into modern humor theories. The study explores the relationship between the traditional media frames of the ideal candidate, populist campaigner, and the sure loser (Grabe & Bucy, 2009) and the …
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THE EMERGING MARKET OF MEME-NEWS: HOW POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES INFORM YOUNG ADULTS AND SHAPE THEIR POLITICAL OPINIONS
Nell'era digitale, i meme su Internet sono emersi come una modalità pervasiva di comunicazione online, influenzando significativamente il modo in cui l’informazione politica viene diffusa e fruita dalle persone. Questa dissertazione esplora il ruolo sfaccettato dei meme politici nell'informare le …
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“Meme, meu idioma”: os usos e apropriações de memes por nativos digitais para falar de política no cotidiano
… um dos fenômenos emergentes desse tempo: os memes. Partindo dos nativos digitais, também conhecidos como geração Z, buscamos entender as novas relações que os jovens estão construindo com a política brasileira no mundo contemporâneo.
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What does it all meme? : a look into gender stereotypes and traits in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.
This content analysis examines how social media memes portrayed presidential primary candidates during the 2016 United States presidential election. In the wake of Internet and social media evolutions in communications, memes of candidates have been added to the new paradigm of American political …
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Design a Meme: Visual Representation, Creative Strategies and Memetic Culture
… a new visual form of expressioninternet memeshas emerged. Cultural memes develop in an extremely fascinating manner and have gradually become mainstream on social media. Memes have a significant impact on young people; the emerging visual culture may alter their perceptions of visual …
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