'Hieroglyphs of Protest': Internet Memes and Protest Movement in Russia

Shomova, Svetlana

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3416551

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“…She described the candidates D. Yu. Kulchitskaya, A. O. Folts МЕДИАСОЦИОЛОГИЯ running for president and noted that this campaign was different from previous ones as it included more memes and activity in social networks, which might be due to the fact that millennials joined the electorate for the first time and their digital culture was taken into account when constructing the images of different politicians [Shomova, 2019]. Besides, Shomova notes that Sobchak was an object of memes not so often as her counterparts in the presidential race.…”

Section: Ksenia Sobchak Between Show Business and Politicsmentioning

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Between Politics and Show Business: Public Discourse on Social Media Regarding Ksenia Sobchak, the Only Female Candidate in the 2018 Russian Presidential Election

Кульчицкая

Фольц

2020

MONITORING OF PUBLIC OPINION

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The article analyzes the public discourse on social media regarding the only female candidate in the 2018 Russian presidential election. Ksenia Sobchak is a famous Russian public figure who started as a TV personality and subsequently changed her image to become a serious journalist and finally a politician. The figure of Sobchak is an interesting topic to study for a number of reasons. Firstly, the issue of women in politics is poorly studied in communication research due to their low representation in political sphere. Secondly, Sobchak undermines traditional views about women in society; that is why looking at Sobchak as a presidential candidate allows a researcher not only to consider this case study through the lens of Sobchak’s image as a politician but also to understand the public attitudes towards women with an active civic position in the Russian society. The paper examines the public discussion on social media related to the Sobchak campaign. The authors analyze the messages within five top social media websites (Facebook, Instagram, Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, Twitter). Computer-assisted sentiment analysis shows that Sobchak’s background as a scandalous TV host has had a negative impact on her political career. Public discourse in the sample under consideration was predominantly focused on the scandals related to Sobchak’s past and least related to her statements during the electoral competition.

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Between Politics and Show Business: Public Discourse on Social Media Regarding Ksenia Sobchak, the Only Female Candidate in the 2018 Russian Presidential Election

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Фольц

2020

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“…Political Internet memes are a phenomenon situated at the intersection of digital and political communication that is becoming an increasingly popular object of study. Two main approaches are worth mentioning: 1) memes as a mechanism of political participation and the manifestation of anonymous networked creativity (Shifman 2013;Shomova 2021); 2) memes as a mechanism for the transfer and storage of cultural information (Dennet 1999;Dawkins 2000). Memes are "digital content units with common characteristics that are created in mutual consciousness and distributed, imitated and transformed by many users over the Internet" (Shifman 2013: 7).…”

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Making fun of power

Semotiuk

Shevchenko

2023

EJHR

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The paper deals with Ukrainian President’s Zelensky image in political cartoons and memes. They are forms of political humour and can be examined in an interdisciplinary manner. The first part describes theoretical aspects, functions, and elements of political humour and political satire, main features and types of cartoons and memes. In the second part, the corpus of 198 political cartoons and 1121 memes from March 2019 to December 2020 is analysed with computer-aided content analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. The analysis units are social context, formed by the domestic and foreign political events in Ukraine in the research period, joke techniques and communication levels in the cartoons and memes. These units are examined chronologically and thematically. The research is based on the hypothesis about the interdependence of social context and subversive/supportive humour in the construction of Zelensky’s image.

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Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics

Poon

2022

Digi War

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The meteoric rise of TikTok, the video-sharing app owned by Chinese technology giant ByteDance, is already being hailed as a potent platform for political expression, but this is complicated by its economic and geopolitical entanglements, namely the ongoing power rivalry between China and the US, as well as TikTok’s adherence to a business bottom line. This short commentary aims to unpack some of the structural issues which contextualise TikTok’s particular brand of political ambivalence ahead of designations of the platform as a meaningful site for political participation.

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'Hieroglyphs of Protest': Internet Memes and Protest Movement in Russia

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Between Politics and Show Business: Public Discourse on Social Media Regarding Ksenia Sobchak, the Only Female Candidate in the 2018 Russian Presidential Election

Between Politics and Show Business: Public Discourse on Social Media Regarding Ksenia Sobchak, the Only Female Candidate in the 2018 Russian Presidential Election

Making fun of power

Sino-Cal realism: TikTok as a medium between new market dynamics

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