Don’t Feed the Trolls: The Net and Memeing as New Knowing

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Chris BrkichFollow
Timothy BarkoFollow

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Room 3030

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Paper

Start Date

January 2013

End Date

January 2013

Abstract

From the time of Aristotle’s Poetics, comedy has been described as “a mimesis of inferior persons... [of] what is funny—an aspect of ugliness” (§ 14). Modern-day memeing has the power to present sociotechnologically mediated truth on this “aspect of ugliness”. Expanding on Harper (1998), we conducted an ethnographic content analysis of political and cultural quickmemes, present our findings in rage comic form, and discuss the importance of memeing in the development of 21st century awareness.

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Don’t Feed the Trolls: The Net and Memeing as New Knowing

Room 3030

From the time of Aristotle’s Poetics, comedy has been described as “a mimesis of inferior persons... [of] what is funny—an aspect of ugliness” (§ 14). Modern-day memeing has the power to present sociotechnologically mediated truth on this “aspect of ugliness”. Expanding on Harper (1998), we conducted an ethnographic content analysis of political and cultural quickmemes, present our findings in rage comic form, and discuss the importance of memeing in the development of 21st century awareness.