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Internet Memes and Society

Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts

Anastasia Denisova

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English
Routledge
26 March 2019
This book provides a solid, encompassing definition of Internet memes, exploring both the common features of memes around the globe and their particular regional traits. It identifies and explains the roles that these viral texts play in Internet communication: cultural, social and political implications; significance for self-representation and identity formation; promotion of alternative opinion or trending interpretation; and subversive and resistant power in relation to professional media, propaganda, and traditional and digital political campaigning. It also offers unique comparative case studies of Internet memes in Russia and the United States.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781138602786
ISBN 10:   1138602787
Series:   Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
Pages:   204
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction 1. Definition and Evolution 2. Before Memes: Tactical Media, Humour and Affective Engagement with Politics Online 3. Many Uses of Memes: From Fast-Food Media to Political Mindbombs 4. Globalisation and Memes 5. Russian Resistance and Propaganda (through Memes) in 2014 6. US memes on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2017 7. Conclusion

Anastasia Denisova is Lecturer in Journalism at the Communication and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster, UK.

Reviews for Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts

'Anastasia Denisova offers outstanding scholarship on meme creation and digital activism in the form of memes as tools of dissent. In this work we get an innovatibe approach on understanding memes as discursive weapons, solidarity-building and as carnivalesque. For those interested in political resistance and the use of digital means in authoritarian and increasingly censored digital networks, the author breaks new ground establising excellent scholarship in this new area of study.' --Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester, UK


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