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Relacje Międzykulturowe, 2023 REINTERPRETATION OF THE IMAGE OF PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY IN POLISH INTERNET MEMES DURING THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR The article discusses the online reception of the image of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2022.
Rafał Mazur
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Understanding of comical texts in people with different types of attitudes towards humour
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021 This study aimed to test a hypothesis about the correlation between levels of gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism and understanding of Internet memes as a specific form of humour. Participants were 45 native speakers of Russian (aged 18 – 30;
Daniil Rivin, Olga Shcherbakova
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Challenging power through social media
Communicare, 2022 Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. However, in recent years, he has faced serious resistance from ordinary citizens. This article examines subversive internet memes that were created by ordinary Zimbabweans and posted on social
Rodwell Makombe +1 more
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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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Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021 Internet memes are phenomena that rapidly gain popularity or notoriety on the Internet. Often, modifications or spoofs add to the profile of the original idea thus turning it into a phenomenon that transgresses social and cultural boundaries.
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Meme and cyber sexism: Habitus and symbolic violence of patriarchy on the Internet
Simulacra, 2021 This study examines the various sexist practices on the Internet called cyber sexism. The Internet seems to become a new world for patriarchal domination.
Moh. Faiz Maulana
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COVID-19 public discourse in Russia: Semantic mapping [PDF]
World of Media, 2022 The objective of the study was to analyze the representation and characteristics of most relevant semantic categories in COVID-related memes using semantic mapping strategies as well as to describe interconnected spheres in semantic fields and possible ...
Olga Smirnova +4 more
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Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture
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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Memes at an exhibition: consumer interpretations of internet memes [PDF]
, 2016 Have you ever participated a virtual exhibition that is made up of memes? If not, it is high time. Our research subjects put together virtual exhibitions of memes and their explanations as guides. Our projective exploratory research focused on internet-literate consumers’ choices and interpretations of internet memes.
Horváth, Dóra, Mitev, Ariel Zoltán
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Semiotic Hybridisation as the Basis of Internet Meme Semantics
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2018 The authors study the process of semiotic hybridisation in internet memes, which are a popular internet communication phenomenon. The relevance of the topic is conditioned by the lack of academic research into multimodal features of internet memes.
Golubkova E. E , Kanashina S. V.
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