The Playful Politics of Memes

Herausgeber: Mortensen, Mette; Neumayer, Christina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies how memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways. Memes create a playful activity that follows a shared set of rules and gives a (shared) voice, which may generate togetherness and political identities but also increase polarization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781032449524
• ISBN-10: 1032449527
• Artikelnr.: 71911086

Autorenporträt

Mette Mortensen is Professor and Deputy Head of Department for Research at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Christina Neumayer is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The playful politics of memes 2. Messy on the inside: internet memes as
mapping tools of everyday life 3. Memes, brands and the politics of
post-terror togetherness: following the Manchester bee after the 2017
Manchester Arena bombing 4. Memetising the pandemic: memes, COVID-19
mundanity and political cultures 5. 'Don't panic people! Trump will tweet
the virus away': memes contesting and confirming populist political leaders
during the COVID-19 crisis 6. '#OkBoomer, time to meet the Zoomers':
studying the memefication of intergenerational politics on TikTok 7.
Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres 8.
Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right's digital
visual culture 9. Murder fantasies in memes: fascist aesthetics of death
threats and the banalization of white supremacist violence