Memes to movements : how the world's most viral media is changing social protest and power / An Xiao Mina.
Mina, An Xiao, 1983- author.
2019
HM851 .M5454 2019eb
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Title Memes to movements : how the world's most viral media is changing social protest and power / An Xiao Mina.
Author Mina, An Xiao, 1983- author.
ISBN 9780807056608 (electronic book)
080705660X (electronic book)
9780807056585
0807056588
Published Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations
Call Number HM851 .M5454 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.23/1
Summary "Memes are the street art of the internet and the newest tool shaping political contention today. Between authoritarians and activists, between propagandists and journalists, memes are now essential to modern media. Using social media-driven movements as her guide, technologist and digital media scholar An Xiao Mina goes on a global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline. She finds that even the silly stuff of meme culture--the photo remixes, the selfies, the YouTube songs, and the pun-tastic hashtags--are fundamentally intertwined with how movements build power: by affirming emotions and identities, driving attention and narrative, and shaping culture. The same power is also a key vector for misinformation, hate, surveillance, and censorship, embraced by the powerful to influence our digital public spaces. Fresh and sharply innovative, Memes to Movements unveils the transformative power of memes--and how they will save or destroy us all."--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Hands up, umbrellas up
The revolution of the cat
All about the feels
Ahem, attention please
Narrating our way to power
Chaos magic
A contest of memes
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