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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

The Growth, Spread, and Mutation of Memes

, 2023
Memes are constantly being sent around and altered, making the originality of the memes difficult to find and analyze. This study focuses on the utilization of google searches to examine the most common forms of memes that have been searched up on google
Lowe, Cameron, Solis-Castillo, Emily
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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Attack on Titan anime memes: Possible meanings and interpretations by young adults.

Journal of Media Literacy Education
Memes have unpredictable and diverse interpretations because of their tendencies to be parodies, remixes, or mashups. This study aims to examine the possible meanings which memes may express and the interpretations of memes by young adults within the ...
Yee-Lin Teo, Sze Seau Lee, Xin Jie Lim   +2 more
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How to cook a meme: exploring content strategies in brand and user-generated memes on Instagram

Cogent Business & Management
In the realm of marketing, capturing the attention of Millennials and Generation Z individuals, known for their short attention spans and ad-skipping tendencies, presents a formidable challenge for marketers. Memes have emerged as a short form of content
Ashima Agrawal, Daneshwar Sharma, Manoj Kumar Mishra, M. A. Shah, Mumtaz Alam, Vinay Khandelwal   +5 more
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Internet memes in youth communication [PDF]

, 2017
The phenomenon of Internet memes is highly popular nowadays, but it is still poorly examined, especially empirically. This article presents the results of a study of the attitudes of young people to Internet memes.
Lysenka, Lizaveta N.
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Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Into the meme stream: The value and spectacle of Internet memes

New Media & Society
This article ‘tracks’ memes, forms of networked, pictorial/caption humour and social commentary – as well as cultural labour, through a process of value change: the ‘meme stream’. This is a process of incorporation of cultural resistance and labour into,
Tyson Mitman, Jack Denham
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

Memeing: Story Memes to Foster Multimodal Communication in Language Learning [PDF]

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
This article highlights the use of memes as a tool for creating and conveying meaning through multiple modes of communication in language classrooms. Memes have emerged as a popular form of communication in the digital age, utilizing a combination of ...
Angela Lee-Smith
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