[Air-L] research on memes

[Kathleen Brennan]

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

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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