Occupy Wall Street Meets Occupy Iraq

Hristova, Stefka

doi:10.1215/01636545-2210473

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“…As the image spread through social media (primarily Twitter) hours after its original publication on a Turkish news site, about 17% of the shared images from the news event appropriated the iconic image in cartoons, memes, and other formats (Vis & Goriunova, 2015). Photojournalistic icons get their multiple lives online when they become Internet memes: images that share common elements of content, form, and stance and use the original image as a template to create new meaning (Hristova, 2013(Hristova, , 2014Milner, 2013;Shifman, 2014aShifman, , 2014b. These images can serve as "memetic photos" (Shifman, 2014b, p. 89), images that invite memetic creativity for a variety of reasons: They may display a visual incongruence that begs for resolution or repetition in other contexts, they may freeze an unfinished action or a tense moment that provokes creative responses, or they may display an absurd situation or a funny facial expression that gets reappropriated in other compositions that already have existing content (Shifman, 2014a(Shifman, , 2014b.…”

Section: The "Speeded-up Icon" and Internet Derivativesmentioning

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The Influence-Network Model of the Photojournalistic Icon

Dahmen

Mielczarek

Perlmutter

2018

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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Iconic images are those that rise to the forefront of our collective, visual public consciousness to become the defining, enduring image of an event: a naked Vietnamese girl screaming out in pain following a napalm attack, U.S. Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima, and a German dirigible engulfed in flames and falling to the ground. Iconic images have a discursive value that helps citizens navigate and understand the political and social contexts of complex events. Traditionally, news photographs became iconic largely through their prominent placement on the front pages of elite newspapers across the globe. But, undeniably, in the age of digital news, mobile phones/tablets, and social media, the media component has changed the equation for the formation of iconic imagery and collective visual consciousness. With the speed, ease of access, and abundance of information sources available in the current age, a volume of images can now represent a significant (or not so significant) event. This monograph traces the development of iconic image literature and then proposes a model termed the “influence-network model of the photojournalistic icon,” which predicts how photographs of events become iconic (or not).

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The Influence-Network Model of the Photojournalistic Icon

Dahmen

Mielczarek

Perlmutter

2018

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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“…In that case, Internet memes are recognizable because of their shared meaning in a communal setting. Besides, the power of community potentially can be increased along with participation in the process (Hristova 2013). Spitzberg (2014) utilized the spiral of silence effect to illustrate that the cooperative memes assistant minority groups give voice to their memes in the mainstream discourse.…”

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Internet Memes as Form of Cultural Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis on Facebook

Akhther¹

2021

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Internet memes are phenomena that rapidly gain popularity on the Internet which construct intercultural discourse. Using visual rhetoric, the Internet memes convey a set of symbols and ideals that express socio-political structure represented on the Internet. The story of memes is crucial in understanding the digital culture along with revealing the identity of an Internet subculture, as well as in analyzing the impacts of this cultural artifact. This study analyzes the nature and functions of internet memes and its contribution to formulate a new cultural discourse. The findings have been instrumented to illustrate how memes operate as rhetoric to explore the intercultural communication and identity construction prevalent in representative cyber-culture. It has specially been targeted to inquire the inter-textual nature of memes which are created and disseminated by the Bangladeshi Facebook prosumers. In addition, the study makes a comparison of theoretical approaches to the study of memes, including visual rhetoric approach which combines elements of the semiotic and discursive approaches to study the persuasive constituents of visual texts. These methods help deconstruct a sign or a text and decode possible hidden meanings through discourse analysis in terms of written texts and through semiotic analysis in terms of images. The presence of both an image (sign) and a caption (text) in an internet meme requires such a combined approach for reflective output.

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“…Memes serve as cultural building blocks that bridge between personal and political meanings (Shifman, 2014), between the past and present (Hristova, 2013), and between seriousness and silliness or politics and humor (Mina, 2019;Shifman, 2014;Tay, 2014). Thus, it is no surprise that questions related to worldview, hope, aspirations, and self-awareness hop on the vessel of memes.…”

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Transnational Feelings: Digital Affect as a Global Analytic

Jaber

Kraidy

Al-Ghazzi

et al. 2021

SPIR

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This panel examines the role of affect in transnational digital media, offering fine-grained analyses of online communities and media artifacts which contend with and carve out contested futures. In doing so, it offers digital affect as an analytic for contending with interdependent realities. Through qualitative interviews, close readings, and textual analyses, these projects engage in a range of approaches to trace the digital affects which circulate transnationally. They examine the World Economic Forum as a transnational spectacle of justice, the promotional materials and the recoding work of extremist groups like the so-called “Islamic State,” online communities which suture continuities between Al-Andalus and an emerging Arab Muslim identity, and global meme-makers who engage in expression through playful but also puncturing forms of critique. Through these case studies, the panel examines the power of particular affects—like nostalgia, fear, shame, and zanaakha, a kitschy humor of the times—and the particular power of affects—to bind and polarize communities, to identify transnational structures of feeling, and to reshape the political present by feeling history differently. By turning to these spaces, these projects make the case for careful, contextualized approaches to affect and digital media in order to mine their political power.

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Occupy Wall Street Meets Occupy Iraq

Cited by 9 publications

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The Influence-Network Model of the Photojournalistic Icon

The Influence-Network Model of the Photojournalistic Icon

Internet Memes as Form of Cultural Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis on Facebook

Transnational Feelings: Digital Affect as a Global Analytic

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