[Air-L] research on memes

Fri Apr 20 09:25:24 PDT 2018

Dear Kathleen,

I would highly appreciate a pdf copy of your chapter to incorporate in my teaching. Many thanks for the link you provide – it’s making me think of creative ways to teach the topic to the next academic class.

Best wishes,

Herminder

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From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Kathleen Brennan <kpjb at hawaii.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 3:34:47 PM
To: Crystal Abidin
Cc: List Aoir
Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on memes

I also have a fairly recent chapter on Memes that deals with some of their
uses in political protest.  It can be found in this book:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt14jxw02, but I can also send along
a PDF to anyone who is interested.

I also memes in my teaching to help students investigate some of the ways
in which memes as a visual language can be used to confront current
events.  I like to ask students to work in pairs to make memes that could
be used as part of the conversation around a current issue that is
important to them.  We tend to use simple websites like
https://memegenerator.net/ to generate these memes in class.

I'm taking notes on the rest of this thread as well!

Thanks,

Kathleen Brennan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
www.kpjbrennan.com<http://www.kpjbrennan.com>

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:04 AM, Crystal Abidin <crystalabidin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Anja and Tunde,
>
> Kristine Ask and I recently published a paper on student problem memes in
> relation to university life:
> Ask, Kristine, and Crystal Abidin. 2018. “My life is a mess:
> Self-deprecating relatability and collective identities in the memification
> of student issues.” Information, Communication and Society 21(6): 834-850.
> DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1437204
>
> Here is a list of multimedia/pop cultural resources I have (haphazardly)
> curated on memes:
> https://wishcrys.com/memes/
>
> And here are some key texts on memes:
> 1) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/memes-digital-culture
> 2) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-we-cant-have-nice-things
> 3) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/world-made-meme
> 4)
> https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ambivalent+Internet%3A+
> Mischief%2C+Oddity%2C+and+Antagonism+Online-p-9781509501274
> 5) http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/from-memes-to-movements/
>
> Hope this is useful.
> /C
>
>
>
> On 20 April 2018 at 11:16, Tunde Opeibi <bopeibi at unilag.edu.ng> wrote:
>
> > Anja,
> > seems you were reading my mind. I'm in a similar situation.  We would be
> > grateful for any useful suggestions from members on this platform.
> >
> > With best wishes from Lagos, Nigeria,
> >
> > Tunde
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Anja Venter <anjaventer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi people of AoIR,
> > >
> > > I am currently supervising a student who is looking at how students use
> > > memes on Facebook to engage with campus culture/politics on particular
> > > university sites.
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me to the most recent meme
> > > literature/theories/studies/concepts?
> > >
> > > Your help is much appreciated!
> > > Thanks,
> > > Anja
> > >
> > > *illustration, design, research*
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