Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture [PDF]
Sign Systems Studies, 2016 This article argues for a clearer framework of internet-based “memes”. The science of memes, dubbed ‘memetics’, presumes that memes remain “copying units” following the popularisation of the concept in Richard Dawkins’ celebrated work, The Selfish Gene ...
Sara Cannizzaro
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Educação & Formação, 2019 This paper aims at presenting some reflections upon adopting Internet memes as possibilities for teaching in the context of digital cultures. In Brazil, millions of people interact in social media, on a daily basis, by editing, sharing, reading and ...
Paulo Boa Sorte
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Internet memes as heritage in becoming and its problems: The methodology of heritization and the formation of cultural memory in cyberspace [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2023 After defining Internet memes and their place within broader popular culture, this paper examines the methodology and interpretation of a large-scale collection of Internet memes used by the KnowYourMeme database.
Knežević Ana
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From Humor to Strategy: An Experimental Survey on Internet Memes in Social Media Marketing
European Management Studies, 2023 Purpose: The paper addresses the issue of the use of Internet memes as a marketing communication tool in social media. The effectiveness of this type of communication is an important issue due to the large role of memes in digital culture, and at the ...
Mateusz Kiljańczyk, Agnieszka Kacprzak
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Preliminary evidence that brief exposure to vaccination-related internet memes may influence intentions to vaccinate against COVID-19. [PDF]
Comput Human Behav, 2022 Despite global efforts to rapidly distribute COVID-19 vaccines, early estimates suggested that 29–35% of the population were hesitant/unwilling to receive them. Countering such vaccine hesitancy is thus an important priority.
Geniole SN +4 more
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Semiotic Organization of Russian Environmental Internet Memes
Научный диалог, 2023 In this article, the authors examine Russian environmental internet memes, presented on social networks such as VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, and on websites like Memepedia, Pikabu, and A. Chistopashin’s site.
E. V. Terentyeva, E. B. Pavlova
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Presenting grammar through Internet memes in teaching English for specific purposes
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2023 The article discusses the potential of using Internet memes in teaching a foreign language. We consider an Internet meme to be a set of semiotic signs. This approach explains the potential of Internet memes application in educational process since most ...
Alevtyna Kalyuzhna +2 more
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Phraseologization of Internet memes
Current issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice, 2023 The article analyzes modern Internet memes, which, due to their precedent, are able to be phraseologized in mass communication. Memes are considered intertextual polycode units that arise as a verbalized reflection on the dynamic development of events and actively function in the virtual media space.
D. Syzonov
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Students' Attitudes towards Internet Memes in Writing Descriptive Text
Acitya, 2023 The aim of this research is to investigate students’ attitudes in writing descriptive text using Internet memes as a writing medium and the reasons leading to the particular attitude that occurred.
Ulil Albab Adha +4 more
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Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis
Social Media + SocietyInternet memes have emerged as the de facto language of the internet, where standardized memetic templates and characters distill and communicate narratives in simple, shareable formats.
Emily Godwin +3 more
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