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Memes as Folklore: Toward a Method for Meme Analysis
Memes as Folklore: Toward a Method for Meme Analysis
Memes as Folklore: Toward a Method for Meme Analysis

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211152038
ISBN  
9798383581360
DDC  
398
저자명  
Wieneke, Marisa.
서명/저자  
Memes as Folklore: Toward a Method for Meme Analysis
발행사항  
[Sl] : Indiana University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
237 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Shukla, Pravina.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation is the result of ethnographic engagement with self-identified meme groups on the social media site Facebook. That engagement and personal experience are leveraged to question previous scholarship produced by folklorists specifically and adjacent disciplines, such as communications and media studies, broadly, and through critique and ethnographic insight, demonstrate an approach to the study of internet memes that produces more nuanced understanding. I review how the term meme has been used in the social sciences and interrogate how the coining of the term as a sort of cultural gene, created and reinforced preconceived notions, which are expressed through biological metaphor, that equate success with spread and fitness in a competitive environment and thus determine which memes are "successful enough" to study. I provide a brief history of the internet as context for a description of Facebook as an ethnographic field site in which users navigate anthropomorphized algorithms and other non-human identified actors. I analyze how people conceptualize memes by looking at how the term is applied to pre-internet materials. And in tracing similarities in form and content between pre-internet humor and internet memes I demonstrate that demarcation between online and offline culture hides interesting cultural continuities. Memes are an intertextual genre and I argue that they rely on audience decoding to generate meaning and the feeling of relatability using the meme Loss.jpg as a case study. I then use the annual sharing of the meme "Frogs and Cranberries, Must be Fall" in the group Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends to illustrate how memes are traditional in the created from the forces of conservatism and dynamism, and become traditionalized in the way that members talk about the memes and imagine meme performances into the future. Both performing the tradition and traditionalizing that performance create a sense of community.
일반주제명  
Folklore
일반주제명  
Social research
일반주제명  
Web studies
일반주제명  
Ethnic studies
키워드  
Ethnography
키워드  
Facebook
키워드  
Folkloristics
키워드  
Internet culture
키워드  
Meme
키워드  
Social media
기타저자  
Indiana University Folklore and Ethnomusicology
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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