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Memetic Rhetoric

Memetic Rhetoric is a theoretical framework within digital rhetoric that analyzes how meaning, persuasion, and cultural values are constructed and transmitted through the replication, variation, and circulation of internet memes as rhetorical artifacts.

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88

Authors

64

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2017–2026

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57

Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker

Limor Shifman · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication · 2013 · 868 citations · Full text

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Persuasion Through Bitter Humor: Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Rhetoric in Internet Memes of Two Far-Right Groups in Finland

Eemeli Hakoköngäs, Otto Halmesvaara, Inari Sakki · Social Media + Society · 2020 · 130 citations · Full text

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Memes as games: The evolution of a digital discourse online

Jens Seiffert‐Brockmann, Trevor Diehl, Leonhard Dobusch · New Media & Society · 2017 · 124 citations

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Pepper Spray Cop and the American Dream: Using Synecdoche and Metaphor to Unlock Internet Memes’ Visual Political Rhetoric

Heidi Huntington · Communication Studies · 2015 · 110 citations

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Digital Social Media and Aggression: Memetic Rhetoric in 4chan’s Collective Identity

Derek M. Sparby · Computers & composition/Computers and composition · 2017 · 102 citations

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Authors

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  1. RW
    Russell Williams

    University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 116 citations

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  2. HH
    Heidi Huntington

    Colorado State University, United States

    2 publications · 211 citations

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  3. AM
    Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    2 publications · 58 citations

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  4. EB
    Emma Baulch

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  5. DM
    David M. Levy

    George Mason University, United States

    1 publications · 25 citations

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Institutions

64

  1. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    58 citations

  2. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    76 citations

  3. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    953 citations

  4. Tianjin Normal University

    Tianjin, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    85 citations

  5. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  6. University of Rhode Island

    Kingston, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    108 citations

  7. Finland University

    Helsinki, Finland

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    260 citations

  8. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

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Venues

  1. New Media & Society

    4 publications · 271 citations

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  2. Social Media + Society

    4 publications · 209 citations

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  4. Management Decision

    2 publications · 116 citations

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  5. Quarterly Journal of Speech

    2 publications · 138 citations

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