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Feb 26, 2024 · While dwarfed by the recent literature on far-right memes, some recent studies dedicated to left-wing memes suggest they too can be animated by transgressive, taboo-breaking humor as illustrated by the “LOL you go to Gulag” example (Bowen, 2020).
Dec 8, 2020 · Right wing memes are short and sweet because they ask you to appeal to kneejerk assumptions which have already been deeply coded into your mind by social propaganda. By contrast, leftist...
The document identified a number of popular Right-wing memes, including Pepe the Frog and Wojak, the former symbolising “a kind of superior nonchalance toward others, helping to normalise hostile attitudes toward minorities and political opponents” and “anti-elite arrogance and condescension”.
May 24, 2019 · Left-skewed memes may be as anarchic, ironic and nihilistic as their counterparts on the right; they might be as dismissive of traditional institutions, as gleeful in their mockery of public...
Jan 25, 2024 · The answer might be, in a word, memes. As the 2024 campaign gets under way, many Americans have tuned out current events. A 2023 Reuters Institute study found that only forty-eight per cent...
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Jul 6, 2020 · As summarized in the buzzword-phrase “the left can’t meme”, the digital engagements of self-identified leftist activists are usually seen as less effective than the ones of the right: their attempts at utilizing Internet culture described as too “politically correct” and “devoid of humour”.
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Sep 25, 2022 · NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Harvard disinformation expert Joan Donovan about memes and how they've come to play, at times, a dangerous role in today's divisive political climate.
