Internet Research Memes
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Internet research memes. Internet memes have become a tool for citizens seeking to participate actively and discursively in a digital public sphere. An internet meme more commonly known simply as a meme m iː m meem is a type of meme that is spread via the internet often through social media platforms traditionally a prominent form of such memes consisted of image macros paired with a concept or catchphrase. This research paper thus analysis how internet memes have been used to communicate political satire. Exposing russia s effort to sow discord online.
The internet research agency and advertisements on february 16 2018 special counsel robert s. The study deals with the impact of internet memes on digital natives and digital migrants in india. Political and electoral processes including the 2016 presidential election. In some cases these memes used words and phrases contain intentional misspellings such as lolcats or incorrect grammar.
And their adequate. Internet memes as we know them today are units of popular culture that are circulated imitated and transformed by users. In the field of computer vision and multimedia information retrieval internet memes have attracted the attention of the research community 8 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. Internet memes transverse and sometimes transcend cyberspace on the back of impossibly cute lolcats speaking mangled english and the snarky remarks of image macro characters always on the lookout for someone to undermine.
Today internet memes have become a part of the political campaigning. The internet research agency is based in st. No longer the abstract. Petersburg russia and has been at work since at least 2013 churning out memes youtube videos facebook posts and twitter accounts.
Mueller iii indicted 13 russian individuals and three russian organizations for engaging in operations to interfere with u s. Limor shifman a key scholar in the study of internet memes argues. This study responds to calls for research into effects of internet memes. Before long harambe became an internet sensation and memes made about him are now some of the most popular and easily recognizable.
Although memes have been examined as visual rhetoric and discursive participation such political memes effects on viewers are unclear. Memes are mediums that communicate information through humor and satire.