Memes
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Automatic Discovery of Meme Genres with Diverse Appearances
Academic Paper This academic paper has the following abstract: Forms of human communication are not static — we expect some evolution in...
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From Memes to Infowars: How 75 Fascist Activists Were “Red-Pilled”
Article This article describes the "red-pilling" phenomenon--how people with mainstream beliefs are converted to far-right fascist ways of thinking. Specifically, this article...
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Fueling the Hong Kong Protests: A World of Pop-Culture Memes
Article This article describes the pop culture memes employed by anti-government protestors in Hong Kong in 2019. The memes come from...
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How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated
Article In this article from the Wall Street Journal's Facebook Files, the authors describe how despite Facebook's best efforts to promote true...
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How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America
Article This article describes how the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian propaganda wing, infiltrated American social media users’ feeds with...
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How to Fight Fake News on Vaccines
Video This video explains how misinformation spread about the HPV vaccine and how one woman with cervical cancer fought to reverse that...
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Incels Categorize Women by Personal Style and Attractiveness
Article This article describes the “Intel” Internet subculture. “Incels” are “involuntarily celibate” men—men who not only struggle to find sexual partners,...
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“It Gets Better”: Internet memes and the construction of collective identity
Academic Paper This academic paper has the following abstract: In September 2010, a video titled “It Gets Better” was uploaded to YouTube,...
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Memes Against Decadence
Article In this article, Ross Douthat explores how memes and other virtual "realities" can exist long enough to change the real...
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Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker
Academic Paper This academic paper has the following abstract: This paper re-examines the concept of “meme” in the context of digital culture....
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Memetic Warfare Lecture Slides
Lecture / slides Slides for Lecture 15 of Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science department. In this lecture, the following...
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Photoshop Fantasies
Book In this piece, Walter Scheirer discusses the history of image manipulation. Although image manipulation is generally considered to be dishonest, Scheirer...
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Protesters are weaponising memes to fight police surveillance
Article This article describes how amidst the Black Lives Matter/anti-police brutality protests of spring 2020, memes were used as a tool...
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Reading Quiz 08
Reading Quiz This reading quiz was used in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Notre...
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Understanding Visual Memes: An Empirical Analysis of Text Superimposed on Memes Shared on Twitter
Academic Paper This academic paper has the following abstract: Visual memes have become an important mechanism through which ideologically potent and hateful...
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Violent memes and messages surging on far-left social media, a new report finds
Article This article describes how memes incited violence on left-wing social media in the summer of 2020 after the killing of George...
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Writing Reflection 06: The Very Weird Internet
Writing Reflection In this writing reflection, students in the Ethical and Professional Issues course in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department...
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Young Chinese Bemoan Rat Race With Tongue-in-Cheek Memes
Article This article describes Chinese memes about the country’s work culture that surfaced during the bleak job market of the COVID-19...