[Air-L] research on memes

Sat Apr 21 07:58:54 PDT 2018

Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S.
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By Erhardt Graeff

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/binders-full-of-election-memes-participatory-culture-invades-the-2012-u-s-election/

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On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 1:53 PM Ferrier, Michelle <ferrierm at ohio.edu> wrote:

> Also, would like to share a theory of digitextuality that examines
> fragmentation, juxtaposition and condensation as digital advocacy
> tactics...memes being the expression of that remix culture:
> http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz12/meta-mapping/2-ferrier-signifying-quilt.html
>
> Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures | ISSN 1555-9351<
> http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz12/meta-mapping/2-ferrier-signifying-quilt.html
> >
> hyperrhiz.io
> Abstract. Through quilt texts, women expanded their domestic rhetoric into
> a public realm. The quilting tradition suggests a method for creating a
> collaborative and polyvocal technology.
>
> Michelle Ferrier
>
>
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> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Graham Meikle <
> G.Meikle at westminster.ac.uk>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 12:39:28 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on memes
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Victoria Esteves and I wrote a chapter together about memes for the
> Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media in 2015. I’m happy
> to share a PDF with anyone who’s interested.
>
> Cheers, gm
>
> --------------------
> Professor Graham Meikle
> Communication and Media Research Institute,
> School of Media, Arts and Design,
> University of Westminster, UK
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> Latest books
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> https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-and-Activism/Meikle/p/book/9781138202030>
> (2018)
> The Internet of Things<
> http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509517459> (2017)
> Social Media<
> https://www.routledge.com/Social-Media-Communication-Sharing-and-Visibility/Meikle/p/book/9780415712248>
> (2016)
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> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org<mailto:
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Lisa Silvestri <
> lisaesilvestri at gmail.com<mailto:lisaesilvestri at gmail.com>>
> Date: Friday, 20 April 2018 at 15:52
> To: Crystal Abidin <crystalabidin at gmail.com<mailto:crystalabidin at gmail.com
> >>
> Cc: List Aoir <air-l at listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on memes
>
> Silvestri LE (2018) Memeingful Memories and the Art of Resistance, *New
> Media &
> Society:
> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444818766092?journalCode=nmsa
> <
> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444818766092?journalCode=nmsa
> >*
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:04 AM, Crystal Abidin <crystalabidin at gmail.com
> <mailto: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<mailto:
> 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
> <mailto: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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> > >
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> > * (Professor of  Digital Cultures & **Discourse Studies, University of
> > Lagos)*
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