Post Memes
Post Memes

Author: Daniel Bristow

Publisher: punctum books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1950192431

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Art-form, send-up, farce, ironic disarticulation, pastiche, propaganda, trololololol, mode of critique, mode of production, means of politicisation, even of subjectivation - memes are the inner currency of the internet's circulatory system. Independent of any one set value, memes are famously the mode of conveyance for the alt-right, the irony left, and the apoliticos alike, and they are impervious to many economic valuations: the attempts made in co-opting their discourse in advertising and big business have made little headway, and have usually been derailed by retaliative meming. POST MEMES: SEIZING THE MEMES OF PRODUCTION takes advantage of the meme's subversive adaptability and ripeness for a focused, in-depth study. Pulling together the interrogative forces of a raft of thinkers at the forefront of tech theory and media dissection, this collection of essays paves a way to articulating the semiotic fabric of the early 21st century's most prevalent means of content posting, and aims at the very seizing of the memes of production for the imagining and creation of new political horizons. With contributions from Scott and McKenzie Wark, Patricia Reed, Jay Owens, Thomas Hobson and Kaajal Modi, Dominic Pettman, Bogna M. Konior, and Eric Wilson, among others, this essay volume offers the freshest approaches available in the field of memes studies and inaugurates a new kind of writing about the newest manifestations of the written online. The book aims to become the go-to resource for all students and scholars of memes, and will be of the utmost interest to anyone interested in the internet's most viral phenomenon. ABOUT THE EDITORS ALFIE BOWN is the author of several books including "The Playstation Dreamworld" (Polity, 2017) and "In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy" (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is also a journalist for the Guardian, the Paris Review, and other outlets. DAN BRISTOW is a recovering academic, a bookseller, and author of "Joyce and Lacan: Reading, Writing, and Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2016) and "2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory" (Palgrave, 2017). He is also the co-creator with Alfie Bown of Everyday Analysis, now based at New Socialist magazine.

Communicating with Memes
Communicating with Memes

Author: Grant Kien

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1498551343

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Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, the causes of these consequences, and what action—if any—should be taken in response. Communicating with memes across social media networks has become a commonplace activity in today’s world, despite the fact that just years earlier, this mode of communication was a rarity. The rapid adoption of this new mode of communication through ubiquitous social media and device use is resulting in a major transformation of the ways in which we think and behave in our digital world. From the election of Donald Trump, to online harassment and identity theft, to the resurgence of once-eradicated diseases due to the anti-vaxxer movement, Grant Kien analyzes fourteen major consequences of this shift and confronts the question of how to approach these consequences.

Memes in Digital Culture
Memes in Digital Culture

Author: Limor Shifman

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2013-10-04

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0262317702

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Taking “Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video—“Mitt Romney Style,” “NASA Johnson Style,” “Egyptian Style,” and many others. “Gangnam Style” (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most famous examples of an Internet meme: a piece of digital content that spreads quickly around the web in various iterations and becomes a shared cultural experience. In this book, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes—including “Leave Britney Alone,” the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's “We Are the 99 Percent.” She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users. She differentiates memes from virals; analyzes what makes memes and virals successful; describes popular meme genres; discusses memes as new modes of political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes; and examines memes as agents of globalization. Memes, Shifman argues, encapsulate some of the most fundamental aspects of the Internet in general and of the participatory Web 2.0 culture in particular. Internet memes may be entertaining, but in this book Limor Shifman makes a compelling argument for taking them seriously.

Memes to Movements
Memes to Movements

Author: An Xiao Mina

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 080705660X

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A global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline, and how they will save or destroy us all. Memes are the street art of the social web. Using social media–driven movements as her guide, technologist and digital media scholar An Xiao Mina unpacks the mechanics of memes and how they operate to reinforce, amplify, and shape today’s politics. She finds that the “silly” stuff of meme culture—the photo remixes, the selfies, the YouTube songs, and the pun-tastic hashtags—are fundamentally intertwined with how we find and affirm one another, direct attention to human rights and social justice issues, build narratives, and make culture. Mina finds parallels, for example, between a photo of Black Lives Matter protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, raising their hands in a gesture of resistance and one from eight thousand miles away, in Hong Kong, of Umbrella Movement activists raising yellow umbrellas as they fight for voting rights. She shows how a viral video of then presidential nominee Donald Trump laid the groundwork for pink pussyhats, a meme come to life as the widely recognized symbol for the international Women’s March. Crucially, Mina reveals how, in parts of the world where public dissent is downright dangerous, memes can belie contentious political opinions that would incur drastic consequences if expressed outright. Activists in China evade censorship by critiquing their government with grass mud horse pictures online. Meanwhile, governments and hate groups are also beginning to utilize memes to spread propaganda, xenophobia, and misinformation. Botnets and state-sponsored agents spread them to confuse and distract internet communities. On the long, winding road from innocuous cat photos, internet memes have become a central practice for political contention and civic engagement. Memes to Movements unveils the transformative power of memes, for better and for worse. At a time when our movements are growing more complex and open-ended—when governments are learning to wield the internet as effectively as protestors—Mina brings a fresh and sharply innovative take to the media discourse.

Memes, Communities and Continuous Change
Memes, Communities and Continuous Change

Author: Nie Hua

Publisher: Bridge 21 Publications

Published: 2021-08-18

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1626430772

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“Chinese Internet Vernacular,” a complex of novel language varieties associated with the Chinese internet, is usually thought to consist of an increasing host of linguistic memes currently or once virally spread. Focusing on the vernacular’s most prominent character—meaning change, this book attempts to account for the different dimensions and aspects that contribute to the memes’ meaning and function variations, based on the quantitative and qualitative data meticulously collected by following and recording the various memes’ diffusions on Chinese social media over four years. Through the discussion of four comprehensive case studies, what we experience as noticeable meaning change throughout a viral meme’s diffusion may in fact be indexical to, under different circumstances, interpersonal communicative effects, collective identities, and community affiliations, as well as larger sociocultural values and ideologies, all of which can be reflexively performed, enacted, and calibrated in social media interactions. With such efforts, this book hopes to do justice to the complexities and dynamics of the “Chinese Internet Vernacular” as a holistic sociolinguistic phenomenon.

Content Marketing Your Original Memes on Instagram
Content Marketing Your Original Memes on Instagram

Author: Malik Jordan

Publisher: Malik McCotter-Jordan

Published: 2020-03-28

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13:

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365 Social Media Post Ideas For Realtors : A Real Estate Marketing Playbook
365 Social Media Post Ideas For Realtors : A Real Estate Marketing Playbook

Author: Nick Tsai

Publisher: Nick Tsai

Published:

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13:

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Are you a real estate agent who wants to generate more leads and sales through social media? Do you want to build a solid personal brand but are too busy to come up with the content necessary to do so? Would you like to create engaging content that attracts potential buyers and sellers? If so, this book is for you! This book provides you with 365 ready-to-use real estate content ideas that you can easily plug in and play with to create engaging social media posts. These helpful pieces of content are designed to attract potential home buyers and sellers and can help position you as the go-to local expert. You can use these ideas in several different ways: Create Image posts with Canva Record TikTok or Reels videos Or you can simply copy and paste those content into your social media posts. What you are getting in this book: 1) 365 done-for-you social media post ideas that you can copy and paste to create social media posts, including: 100 done-for-you home seller tips 100 done-for-you home buyer tips 100 done-for-you real estate terms 25 done-for-you real estate FAQs 40 done-for-you viral real estate quotes 2) 18 social media marketing hacks to grow your following and generate more leads online. 3) 50 social media content ideas that you can use to engage with your audience. Additionally, you will get access to my bonus resources, checklists, and discounts after getting this book. So grab your copy now and start bringing your social media marketing to the next level.

Unpacking Fake News
Unpacking Fake News

Author: H. James Garrett

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0807761141

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Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction : fake news and the imperative of civic education -- Wayne journell -- Why does fake news work? : on the psychosocial dynamics of learning, belief, and citizenship / H. James Garrett -- Real recognize real : thoughts on race, fake news, and naming our truths / Ashley N. Woodson, LaGarrett J. King, and Esther Kim -- Teens, social media, and fake news / Ellen Middaugh -- How students evaluate digital news sources / Sarah McGrew, Joel Breakstone, Teresa Ortega, Mark Smith, and Sam Wineburg -- Teaching in the twilight zone of misinformation, disinformation -- Alternative facts, and fake news / Avner Segall, Margaret Smith Crocco, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, and Rebecca Jacobsen -- Judging credibility in un-credible times : three educational approaches for the digital age / Erica Hodgin and Joseph Kahne -- Political memes and the limits of media literacy / Wayne Journell and Christopher H. Clark -- Two truths and fake news : lessons for young learners / Jennifer Hauver -- Afterword

a tumblr book
a tumblr book

Author: Allison McCracken

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0472054562

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This book takes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or Facebook, Tumblr and its users have been hugely influential in creating and shifting popular culture, especially progressive youth culture, with the New York Times referring to 2014 as the dawning of the “age of Tumblr activism.” Perfect for those unfamiliar with the platform as well as those who grew up on it, this volume contains essays and artwork that span many different topics: fandom; platform structure and design; race, gender and sexuality, including queer and trans identities; aesthetics; disability and mental health; and social media privacy and ethics. An entire generation of young people that is now beginning to influence mass culture and politics came of age on Tumblr, and this volume is an indispensable guide to the many ways this platform works.

Tumblr
Tumblr

Author: Katrin Tiidenberg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-08-23

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1509541101

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Launched in 2007, tumblr became a safe haven for LGBT youth, social justice movements, and a counseling station for mental health issues. For a decade, this micro-blogging platform had more users than either Twitter or Snapchat, but it remained an obscure subculture for nonusers. Katrin Tiidenberg, Natalie Ann Hendry, and Crystal Abidin offer the first systematic guide to tumblr and its crucial role in shaping internet culture. Drawing on a decade of qualitative data, they trace the prominent social media practices of creativity, curation, and community-making, and reveal tumblr’s cultlike appeal and position in the social media ecosystem. The book demonstrates how diverse cultures can – in felt and imagined silos - coexist on a single platform and how destructive recent trends in platform governance are. The concept of “silosociality” is introduced to critically re-think social media, interrogate what kinds of sociality it affords, and what (unintended) consequences arise. This book is an essential resource for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as anyone interested in an influential but overlooked platform.