Communicating with Memes
Consequences in Post-truth Civilization
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2019
1 pages
978-1-9787-8246-4 (ISBN)
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Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, the causes of these consequences, and what action-if any-should be taken in response. Communicating with memes across social media networks has become a commonplace activity in today's world, despite the fact that just years earlier, this mode of communication was a rarity. The rapid adoption of this new mode of communication through ubiquitous social media and device use is resulting in a major transformation of the ways in which we think and behave in our digital world. From the election of Donald Trump, to online harassment and identity theft, to the resurgence of once-eradicated diseases due to the anti-vaxxer movement, Grant Kien analyzes fourteen major consequences of this shift and confronts the question of how to approach these consequences.
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Grant Kien is a professor in the Department of Communication at California State University, East Bay.
Content
Chapter 1-Memes and Memetic Communication
Chapter 2-Our Digital Steam Works
Chapter 3-Rehash(tagged)
Chapter 4-Urgency and Emergency
Chapter 5-Living the Discrete Life
Chapter 6-Digital Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria
Chapter 7-Bitty, Ungrand Narratives
Chapter 8-All in the Hive
Chapter 9-Ironic Camouflage
Chapter 10-Immortal Misinformation
Chapter 11- Memetic Politics and Armchair Activism
Chapter 12-21st Century Witch Hunting
Chapter 13-Looks Good Man (Aesthetic Dominance)
Chapter 14-We're All Situationists Now
Chapter 15-Ethical (R)evolution
Chapter 2-Our Digital Steam Works
Chapter 3-Rehash(tagged)
Chapter 4-Urgency and Emergency
Chapter 5-Living the Discrete Life
Chapter 6-Digital Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria
Chapter 7-Bitty, Ungrand Narratives
Chapter 8-All in the Hive
Chapter 9-Ironic Camouflage
Chapter 10-Immortal Misinformation
Chapter 11- Memetic Politics and Armchair Activism
Chapter 12-21st Century Witch Hunting
Chapter 13-Looks Good Man (Aesthetic Dominance)
Chapter 14-We're All Situationists Now
Chapter 15-Ethical (R)evolution
