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- The ongoing scholarly interest in Internet memes reflects a prevalent perception that they actually matter. Rather than being simply the whimsical creations of bored teenagers, they are modes of expression that hold significant economic, social, and political power.
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Jul 11, 2021 · Memes can accomplish much in service to a qualitative research project and its study aims. Memes tap into people’s everyday expressions and mimic their speech while also functioning as and reflecting culture. Memes can help qualitative research relationships by building rapport between the researcher and participant(s).
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Researchers at Facebook showed in a study in 2014 just how widely memes posted on the social media site can spread and evolve. In one example, they found 121,605 different variants of one...
Jul 11, 2021 · The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols; (c) forms of rapport building and cultivating relational research ...
- Constance Iloh
- 2021
Apr 1, 2013 · Until the twenty-first century, mass communication researchers felt comfortable overlooking memes. As units that propagate gradually through interpersonal contact, they were considered unsuitable for exploring content that is transmitted simultaneously from a single institutional source to the masses.
- Limor Shifman
- 2013
Aug 9, 2020 · Tracking and understanding the spread of the virus is unequivocally linked to the diffusion of information and ideas in complex social systems (Mønsted et al., 2017), with one of its most powerful forms being memes. This is where the social sciences (should) come in.
- Melissa Meyer
- 2021
Jul 11, 2021 · In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols; (c)...
Jun 9, 2024 · Digital ethnography in meme research seeks to make one-to-one contact with the people who make and share memes. This method results in small data with rich contextual information (Bjerre-Nielsen & Glavind, Citation 2022), which can sometimes evade computational methodologies.