The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality

Bradley E. Wiggins

The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 February 2019
Pages
164
ISBN
9781138588400

The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality

Bradley E. Wiggins

Shared, posted, tweeted, commented upon, and discussed online as well as off-line, internet memes represent a new genre of online communication, and an understanding of their production, dissemination, and implications in the real world enables an improved ability to navigate digital culture. This book explores cases of cultural, economic, and political critique levied by the purposeful production and consumption of internet memes. Often images, animated GIFs, or videos are remixed in such a way to incorporate intertextual references, quite frequently to popular culture, alongside a joke or critique of some aspect of the human experience. Ideology, semiotics, and intertextuality coalesce in the book’s argument that internet memes represent a new form of meaning-making, and the rapidity by which they are produced and spread underscores their importance.

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