Don’t Feed the Trolls: The Net and Memeing as New Knowing
Location
Room 3030
Format Type
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.
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.
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