Online memes, affinities, and cultural production

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“It Gets Better”: Internet memes and the construction of collective identity (2016, background): “First, Internet memes were previously studied primarily in their humorous incarnations (e.g. Knobel and Lankshear, 2007; Milner, 2012, 2013; Miltner, 2014; Shifman, 2012, 2013a, 2013b).”
Why is it not Just a Joke? Analysis of Internet Memes Associated with Racism and Hidden Ideology of Colorblindness (2016, background): “Knobel and Lankshear (2006a) define “counter-meming” as “the deliberate generation of a meme that aims at neutralizing or eradicating potentially harmful ideas” (p. 86).”
Racial microaggressions and perceptions of Internet memes (2016, background): “Since memes are intended to be humorous (Davison, 2012; Knobel & Lankshear, 2007), they can be justified along a dimension other than race (i.e., it was only a “joke”) and therefore they may not be considered by creators and/ or promulgators as depicting racial discrimination (Apel, 2009; Dovidio,…”
“You Can't Run Your SUV on Cute. Let's Go!”: Internet Memes as Delegitimizing Discourse (2016, background): “Knobel and Lankshear (2007) examined 19 popular memes from 2001 to 2005.”
“I Has Seen Image Macros!” Advice Animals Memes as Visual-Verbal Jokes (2016, background): “Though many see Internet memes as oriented to humor, nonhumorous memes, including image macros, are also mentioned (cf. Davison, 2012; Knobel & Lankshear, 2007; Vickery, 2014).”