Memes in Digital Culture

By K. Neville. Online information review (Print), 2014

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Memes as genre: A structurational analysis of the memescape (2015, background): “Burgess (2008), Knobel and Lankshear (2007), Milner (2012), and Shifman (2012, 2013, 2014) link their notion of meme to the spread, distribution, replication, and propagation of memes in digital networks.”
Finding and Characterizing Information Warfare Campaigns (2020, background): “Shifman later adapted and defined internet memes as artifacts that “(a) share common characteristics of content, form, and/or stance; (b) are created with awareness of each other; and (c) are circulated, imitated, and transformed via the internet by multiple users” [215, 216].”
“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).”
Old jokes, new media – Online sexism and constructions of gender in Internet memes (2018, methodology): “Drawing on existing research concerning online humour and memes (Shifman, 2013; Shifman & Lemish, 2010), this research aimed to probe the content of this relatively underexplored, contemporary source of Internet data, and to examine representations of gender within popular image macro memes.”