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Communicating with Memes Grant Kien

Communicating with Memes By Grant Kien

Communicating with Memes by Grant Kien


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Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, including online harassment, the election of Donald Trump, and the resurgence of once-eradicated diseases. The author examines the causes of these consequences, and what action-if any-should be taken in response.

Communicating with Memes Summary

Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization by Grant Kien

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.

Communicating with Memes Reviews

This stunning book is destined to become a classic. Comparable to Harold Innis' intellectual precision and Marshall McLuhan's global imagination for the electronic era, Grant Kien is the master thinker of today's digital era. Brilliant with theory and deep across the history of ideas, the readability index of this book is a solid ten. Communicating with Memes will be taught and debated with the same long-lasting influence as Wiener's Human Uses of Human Beings and Baudrillard's Simulacres et Simulation. -- Clifford Christians, University of Illinois
In Communicating With Memes: Consequences in Post-Truth Civilization, Grant Kien provides a wide-ranging tour de force for understanding memetic communications, its virality through social media, and its implications for identity, sociality, politics, and contemporary life. This is a must read for students and faculty in Communications, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, and many other fields. -- Angharad Valdivia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Memes are, in many ways, a new language permeating our lives. Whole conversations appear as animated GIFs, talk show hosts talk about the latest meme craze, and meme templates serve as anything from work and relationship commentary to political criticism (hold my beer). Kien is able to trace not only how contemporary digital memes began, but also what they might mean and how this language can serve as a way to open cultural dialogue and shut it down through fake news, manufactured social crisis and moral panics, and barely veiled reinscriptions of dominance, power, and privilege. This theoretical text is also grounded in history and case studies, making it a fascinating critical engagement with this new, rich language. -- Ted Gournelos, Rollins College

About Grant Kien

Grant Kien is a professor in the Department of Communication at California State University, East Bay.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NLS9781498551359
9781498551359
1498551351
Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization by Grant Kien
New
Paperback
Lexington Books
20210706
250
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