(PDF) Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research
Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research
Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research
40+ Hilarious research memes that will make you smile
Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research
40+ Hilarious research memes that will make you smile
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Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research
Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols ...
Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker
This paper re-examines the concept of "meme" in the context of digital culture. Defined as cultural units that spread from person to person, memes were debated long before the digital era. Yet the Internet turned the spread of memes into a highly visible practice, and the term has become an integral part of the netizen vernacular.
(PDF) Social Media and Meme Culture: A study on the ...
This research paper thus analysis how internet memes have been used to communicate political satire. ... The growth of meme culture has given people a remarkable space for trolling on social media ...
Entropy and complexity unveil the landscape of memes evolution
So far, a large body of research quantitatively investigated the features of different online cultural memes, not limited to images. Textual memes were analyzed by Leskovec et al. 13 as a proxy ...
(PDF) Memes in Digital Culture: a sociological look at memes as
article we will discuss memes as a cultural pract ice within digital culture. Keywords : memes, digital culture, cultural practices Working Papers IS-UP, 4.ª Série, N.º 92
Meme culture and suicide sensitivity: a quantitative study
Research on memes is still a new concept, but hopefully, we will eventually understand the full effects of meme culture. Further research needs to be conducted in order to arrive at a more ...
PDF Meme culture and suicide sensitivity: a quantitative study
1College of Staten Island, Staten Island, USA. email: [email protected]. he purpose of this research study is to understand the effect of memes on suicide sensitivity. 'Sensitivity is ...
Full article: Memes in digital culture
Previous meme research tends to consider memes as a 'single cultural unit' (p. 7); however, Shifman poignantly defines memes as ' a group of digital items sharing common characteristics of content, form and/or stance' (emphasis original, p. 7). She also situates memes as not just a text, but a practice: memes are ' created with awareness ...
The growth, spread, and mutation of internet phenomena: A study of memes
1. Background and problem description. The term "meme" originally comes from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which describes a meme as a cultural unit that is shared and passed down over the course of generations, similar to what occurs with a gene in the biological sense.The term has since developed, reaching its modern definition as described by [1]: "Our analysis argues ...
Impact of status and meme content on spread of memes in ...
term "meme" and defined it as "a unit of cultural transmissions, or a unit of imitation" (Dawkins, 1976, p. 192). Others ha ve defined memes as an instruction for beha vior passed on throu gh
Analysis of the use of memes as an exponent of collective coping during
Introduction. Memes are contagious patterns of cultural information that are transferred from mind to mind, which directly shape and transmit the key actions and mentalities of a social group (Knobel and Lankshear, 2007).With the advent of social networks, memes have become a practice to propagate and circulate communications, which has a significant dimension in cultural production and ...
Meme culture and social media as gendered spaces of dissent and
This can lead to a more nuanced understanding of meme culture as spaces for dominance and counter narratives of misogyny. The paper draws on theories and conceptual frameworks developed in the field of cultural studies, visual studies, communication studies and offers an interconnected critique of the subject.
The Rise of Meme Culture: Internet Political Memes as Tools for
This research paper was aimed at providing a thorough content analysis on memes' linguistic aspect and further understanding them in the light of their usage as political propaganda. A total of 60 memes were culled from July 2016 to December 2018.
What is a meme, technically speaking?
From meme to meme collections. Memes are broadly understood as multimodal cultural artefacts, which are created, remixed and circulated by users across digital platforms (Davison, Citation 2012; Milner, Citation 2016; Shifman, Citation 2014).While such a definition has spread within media research during the past two decades, the origin of the term dates to the 1970s and is tied to the study ...
(PDF) Meme language, its impact on digital culture and collective
According to our research, most of the visual language expression of Internet culture occurs on social networks - 74.7% of respondents said they share memes in social media, 20% said they use both as social networks, as chat apps, and only 5.3% said they shared memes only in chat apps.
Meme Studies Research Network
The research network's members employ a wide variety of methods in their study of internet memes, such as digital ethnography, autoethnography, practice-based research, social network analysis, archival and historical research. Methodological Challenges and Questions. The network is organised around an object of study: internet memes.
The Philosophy of Meme Culture
By Dawkins' definition, memes are cultural ideas that spread and repeat themselves across society. Add the Internet and an evolving sense of humour, and you have the Internet meme: a vessel of communication, a signifier of the comedic zeitgeist, and a device for channelling the inherent anxieties of youth. In a 2018 poll by the Pew Research ...
(PDF) Internet Memes as Form of Cultural Discourse: A Rhetorical
Abstract. Internet memes are phenomena that rapidly gain popularity on the Internet which construct intercultural discourse. Using visual rhetoric, the Internet memes convey a set of symbols and ...
Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker
This paper re-examines the concept of "meme" in the context of digital culture. Defined as cultural units that spread from person to person, memes were debated long before the digital era. Yet the Internet turned the spread of memes into a highly visible practice, and the term has become an integral part of the netizen vernacular.
The Rise of Meme Culture: Examining the Language of Memes as a
The source materials I have used throughout the paper are mainly academic research papers on the subject of the Internet, internet culture, and internet memes. I have also used Roland Barthes' and Umberto Eco's writings in the sphere of semiotics. Writings on the interrelation of humor, propaganda and politics were also important.
PDF Internet meme and Political Discourse: A study on the impact of
This research paper thus deals with the study to: 1. Understand how internet meme is used through social networking mediums to communicate political issues. ... Meme and Popular Culture: Dawkins mentions that memes are a small part of our culture.(Chick, 1999) This spreads from one person to another by imitation or copying. These
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Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols ...
This paper re-examines the concept of "meme" in the context of digital culture. Defined as cultural units that spread from person to person, memes were debated long before the digital era. Yet the Internet turned the spread of memes into a highly visible practice, and the term has become an integral part of the netizen vernacular.
This research paper thus analysis how internet memes have been used to communicate political satire. ... The growth of meme culture has given people a remarkable space for trolling on social media ...
So far, a large body of research quantitatively investigated the features of different online cultural memes, not limited to images. Textual memes were analyzed by Leskovec et al. 13 as a proxy ...
article we will discuss memes as a cultural pract ice within digital culture. Keywords : memes, digital culture, cultural practices Working Papers IS-UP, 4.ª Série, N.º 92
Research on memes is still a new concept, but hopefully, we will eventually understand the full effects of meme culture. Further research needs to be conducted in order to arrive at a more ...
1College of Staten Island, Staten Island, USA. email: [email protected]. he purpose of this research study is to understand the effect of memes on suicide sensitivity. 'Sensitivity is ...
Previous meme research tends to consider memes as a 'single cultural unit' (p. 7); however, Shifman poignantly defines memes as ' a group of digital items sharing common characteristics of content, form and/or stance' (emphasis original, p. 7). She also situates memes as not just a text, but a practice: memes are ' created with awareness ...
1. Background and problem description. The term "meme" originally comes from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which describes a meme as a cultural unit that is shared and passed down over the course of generations, similar to what occurs with a gene in the biological sense.The term has since developed, reaching its modern definition as described by [1]: "Our analysis argues ...
term "meme" and defined it as "a unit of cultural transmissions, or a unit of imitation" (Dawkins, 1976, p. 192). Others ha ve defined memes as an instruction for beha vior passed on throu gh
Introduction. Memes are contagious patterns of cultural information that are transferred from mind to mind, which directly shape and transmit the key actions and mentalities of a social group (Knobel and Lankshear, 2007).With the advent of social networks, memes have become a practice to propagate and circulate communications, which has a significant dimension in cultural production and ...
This can lead to a more nuanced understanding of meme culture as spaces for dominance and counter narratives of misogyny. The paper draws on theories and conceptual frameworks developed in the field of cultural studies, visual studies, communication studies and offers an interconnected critique of the subject.
This research paper was aimed at providing a thorough content analysis on memes' linguistic aspect and further understanding them in the light of their usage as political propaganda. A total of 60 memes were culled from July 2016 to December 2018.
From meme to meme collections. Memes are broadly understood as multimodal cultural artefacts, which are created, remixed and circulated by users across digital platforms (Davison, Citation 2012; Milner, Citation 2016; Shifman, Citation 2014).While such a definition has spread within media research during the past two decades, the origin of the term dates to the 1970s and is tied to the study ...
According to our research, most of the visual language expression of Internet culture occurs on social networks - 74.7% of respondents said they share memes in social media, 20% said they use both as social networks, as chat apps, and only 5.3% said they shared memes only in chat apps.
The research network's members employ a wide variety of methods in their study of internet memes, such as digital ethnography, autoethnography, practice-based research, social network analysis, archival and historical research. Methodological Challenges and Questions. The network is organised around an object of study: internet memes.
By Dawkins' definition, memes are cultural ideas that spread and repeat themselves across society. Add the Internet and an evolving sense of humour, and you have the Internet meme: a vessel of communication, a signifier of the comedic zeitgeist, and a device for channelling the inherent anxieties of youth. In a 2018 poll by the Pew Research ...
Abstract. Internet memes are phenomena that rapidly gain popularity on the Internet which construct intercultural discourse. Using visual rhetoric, the Internet memes convey a set of symbols and ...
This paper re-examines the concept of "meme" in the context of digital culture. Defined as cultural units that spread from person to person, memes were debated long before the digital era. Yet the Internet turned the spread of memes into a highly visible practice, and the term has become an integral part of the netizen vernacular.
The source materials I have used throughout the paper are mainly academic research papers on the subject of the Internet, internet culture, and internet memes. I have also used Roland Barthes' and Umberto Eco's writings in the sphere of semiotics. Writings on the interrelation of humor, propaganda and politics were also important.
This research paper thus deals with the study to: 1. Understand how internet meme is used through social networking mediums to communicate political issues. ... Meme and Popular Culture: Dawkins mentions that memes are a small part of our culture.(Chick, 1999) This spreads from one person to another by imitation or copying. These