Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on how your brain fills in gaps in the sounds you hear.
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In the decades since the first shitpost, the practice has become widespread and sophisticated – especially among today’s young people.
Imma let you finish, but there’s more to memes than you think.
After the hashtag #MeTooInChina was blocked by Chinese authorities in mid-January, social media users made creative use of nicknames and emojis to evade censorship and highlight harassment.
The term “meme” was coined in 1976. Today, these cultural artefacts have gone viral, and are redrawing the boundaries of acceptable political discourse.
What connects a cartoon frog, misappropriated mythology and the US’s 45th president?
If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
Hillary Clinton failed to unleash the power of the meme.
The Politically Incorrect forum is bringing its racist vitriol to a website near you.
A scholar of visual culture sees a transition happening online as the alt-right reinterprets images of police shootings to push back against the gains made by Black Lives Matter.
This scientific field suggests people have been passing along memes since long before the birth of the internet. What makes one bit of culture take off, while another sinks from sight?
The spontaneous success of Pokémon Go shows how powerful internet memes can be.
The visual is powerful within social media content. For politics, it allows additional commentary, more detail, and humour.
We all use rhetorical structures. But, unless we’re skilled in their use, as politicians and advertisers clearly are, we don’t necessarily grasp their full manipulative power.
Watching a clip of Lil Bub or Grumpy Cat may give you a quick mood boost to get you through a tough workday.
The debate over the color of “the dress,” a social media phenomena, tells us a lot about how internet-wide opinions are formed and manipulated.
News that the Conservative Party has been spending more than £100,000 a month on Facebook advertising has its supporters and rivals all wondering if this is money well spent. It seems like a lot of money…
On May 26, the day after Ukraine elected Petro Poroshenko its president, a meme surfaced on the Russian Internet (or RuNet, as it’s colloquially known) depicting Ukraine as a chocolate bar. A reference…
Now that every celebrity under the sun and every Facebook user has posted a video of themselves getting wet, it appears we have reached peak ice bucket. A trend that started as a drive to raise awareness…
Rick Astley, 80s pop singer and unlikely king of internet memes, is dead. Or at least the most persistent song in his catalogue is. Or at least its most popular unofficial YouTube upload is. Or at least…
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Westminster
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Professor of Internet Studies & Director of Influencer Ethnography Research Lab, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology, Utah Valley University
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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