[Air-L] Memes Globally

[Gabriele de Seta]

Dear Cameron,

I have written quite extensively about digital folklore in China - both in academic venues:

de Seta, G. (2014). "Meng? It just means cute": A Chinese online vernacular term in context. M/C Journal, 17(2). Retrieved from http://www.journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/789
de Seta, G. (2016). Neither meme nor viral: The circulationist semiotics of vernacular content. Lexia. Rivista Di Semiotica, 25-26, 463-486.

and shorter essays you can find online:
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/feb/4/de-seta/
https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/11/03/the-social-life-of-sad-frogs-or-pepe-goes-to-china/

I also maintain an archive of vernacular content from Chinese digital media platforms:
http://dajiangyou.tumblr.com/ (NSFW)

And have written a few reports on specific genres:
http://newhive.com/notsaved/profile

Lastly, I suggest this reading by Christina Xu:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bmvd74/china-meme-face-a-biaoqing-field-guide

cheers,
Gabriele

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Subject: [Air-L] Memes Globally

 Greetings all,

I am a doctoral candidate studying memes and meme cultures, but I worry that I have a particularly United States-centric bias to the memes and "memescapes" that I regularly observe and visit. I have done some work to reach out to online communities primarily based in China and Taiwan, but I have had mixed results.

I am hoping the multinational AoIR community could help me expand my scope to include other "memescapes" or even particular memes that members might see as particularly reflective of other national contexts. Are there sites or communities specific to national cultures that I should investigate? Or are there resources that might compile a variety of resources worth investigating? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Cameron Lindsey!
Doctoral Student & Assistant Instructor
Managing Editor, *Flow Journal <http://www.flowjournal.org/>* Department of Radio-Television-Film University of Texas at Austin _______________________________________________
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