[Air-L] research on memes

Leila Bighash leilabighash at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 09:10:00 PDT 2018 

Hi there,

Here's an article by a research group I was in that discusses the use of
memes and other media (comparing "viral" posts to one-off posts for
individual expression) as it spread through Facebook during the 2012
elections.

Edgerly, S., Thorson, K., Bighash, L., & Hannah, M. (2016). *Posting about
politics: Media as resources for political expression on Facebook*. *Journal
of Information Technology & Politics*, 13(2), 108-125.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19331681.2016.1160267

Hope it's useful!

Leila

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Ioana Literat <il2311 at tc.columbia.edu>
wrote:

> 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>
>
> Ioana
>
> --
> Ioana Literat, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies
> Design
> Teachers College, Columbia University
> literat at tc.columbia.edu <mailto:literat at tc.columbia.edu>
> http://ioanaliterat.com <http://ioanaliterat.com/>
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> T: 740-593-0899
> >> F: 740-593-0459
> >> ferrierm at ohio.edu
> >> Twitter: @mediaghosts
> >> Twitter: @yoursosteam (TrollBusters)
> >> ________________________________
> >> 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*
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> *Professor 'Tunde Opeibi, **PhD*
> >>> * (Professor of  Digital Cultures & **Discourse Studies, University of
> >>> Lagos)*
> >>>
> >>> *Life Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany*
> >>> *Member, *
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >> Adjunct Research Fellow, CCAT, Curtin University
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