Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker

By Limor Shifman. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2013

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Why is it not Just a Joke? Analysis of Internet Memes Associated with Racism and Hidden Ideology of Colorblindness (2016, background): “Many researchers study Internet memes as a prism for looking into certain aspects of contemporary society and culture (Knobel & Lankshear, 2006b; Milner, 2013; Shifman, 2013, 2014b).”
Finding and Characterizing Information Warfare Campaigns (2020, background): “This led to several books on memes, the most influential and controversial being Blackmore’s The Meme Machine [42, 214].”
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform (2020, methodology): “For Shifman (2013), then, memes and digital culture are a “match made in heaven” (p. 365).”
Social Degeneration through Social Media: A Study of the Adverse Impact of ‘Memes’ (2019, background): “Social media is an umbrella term used for many online platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others that are used to share information with people around the world [3,18].”
“I Has Seen Image Macros!” Advice Animals Memes as Visual-Verbal Jokes (2016, background): “In this vein, Shifman (2013) viewed Internet memes as “units of popular culture that are circulated, imitated, and transformed by Internet users, creating a shared cultural experience” (p. 367).”
Humour 2.0: Styles and Types of Humour and Virality of Memes on Facebook (2015, background): “…many scholars have studied memes that pertain to contemporary occurrences or events, such as the Egyptian protests (Harlow, 2013), Vancouver riot kiss (Hahner, 2013), pepper spray cop (Sci & Dare, 2014), Leave Britney Alone joke (Shifman, 2013) and Wife/Husband 1.0 joke (Shifman & Thelwall, 2009).”
“It Gets Better”: Internet memes and the construction of collective identity (2016, methodology): “In this study, we treat Internet memes as groups of items sharing common characteristics of content, form, and/or stance, which were created, transformed, and circulated by many participants through digital participatory platforms (Shifman, 2013b).”
Memes as genre: A structurational analysis of the memescape (2015, background): “Finally, after remix and imitation (Milner, 2012; Shifman, 2012), and rapid diffusion (Shifman, 2013) across social networks or other online spaces for quotidian expression, the emergent meme becomes a meme , in the current parlance of online communication.”