[Air-L] research on memes
Ioana Literat
il2311 at tc.columbia.edu
Sat Apr 21 08:11:10 PDT 2018
This recent article on meme criticism might be useful too, as it adopts a somewhat different lens, focusing on the discussion & dissemination of memes, rather than their production:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1366540 <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1366540>
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> On Apr 21, 2018, at 10:58 AM, Gabriel Mugar <gmugar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S.
> Election
>
> By Erhardt Graeff
>
> https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/binders-full-of-election-memes-participatory-culture-invades-the-2012-u-s-election/
>
> Also related:
>
> Spreadable Spectacle in Digital Culture: Civic Expression, Fake News, and
> the Role of Media Literacies in “Post-Fact” Society
>
> By Paul Mihailidis and Samantha Viotty
> 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
>>
>>
>> Dr. Michelle Ferrier
>>
>> * Associate Professor, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio
>> University
>> * Founder, TrollBusters: Online Pest Control for Women Writers
>> * Project Director, Media Seeds: SE Ohio, Journalism That Matters
>> * 2017 Online News Association Challenge Grant Winner
>> * 2017 Online News Association Award Winner, Electionland
>> * 2017 South by Southwest Community Service Award Winner
>> * 2017 Tow-Knight Disruptive Fellow, CUNY Graduate School
>> * 2016-2017 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow
>> * Principal Investigator, The Media Deserts Project
>>
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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
>>
>> Latest books
>> The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism<
>> 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)
>>
>> 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*
>>>>
>>>> *www.nannaventer.co.za <http://www.nannaventer.co.za> *
>>>>
>>>> *+27 84 929 4647 *
>>>>
>>>> *@nannaventer*
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>>>
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