Memes are simultaneously a fascinating historical record of digital culture as well as the detritus of the cyber age.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Meme
Displaying all articles
Meme stock investing might seem like a fun game, but the risks are real.
A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.
If sharing cute animal content is your love language, you’re not alone — you are part of a bigger cultural phenomenon called the cute economy.
Social media during the pandemic is not all doom scrolling and despair. Lighter memes have psychological benefits.
Despite having no real basis as a financial asset, cryptocurrency Dogecoin recently reached a market cap of more than A$12 billion.
The video game community on Twitch has taken a massive interest in chess. The young, irreverent gamers and the ancient world of chess are both transforming as their cultures collide.
Despite the nihilism and pessimism of internet memes, people ultimately understand the direness of the danger posed by a powerful virus, climate change and global instability.
For many gay men, social media and dating apps are hotbeds of body image struggles and rising toxic masculinity – the recent ‘10-year-challenge’ on Instagram showcases this femmephobia.
Politicians have been using memes to appear cool, plugged in, even ‘lit.’ Here’s why that’s not necessarily a smart idea.
If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they may have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election.
The Politically Incorrect forum is bringing its racist vitriol to a website near you.
This scientific field suggests people have been passing along memes since long before the birth of the internet. What makes one bit of culture take off, while another sinks from sight?
The spontaneous success of Pokémon Go shows how powerful internet memes can be.
Would a reprint of Mein Kampf impact a digital generation reared on “Hi Hitler” spoofs?
Top contributors
-
Principal Research Fellow and Co-Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
-
Professor of Economics, RMIT University
-
Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Sydney
-
Professor, UCL
-
Professor of History and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies, Fairfield University
-
Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
-
Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
-
Subject Leader in Creative Computing, Bath Spa University
-
Honours Student, University of Sydney
-
Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
-
Ph.D., Lakehead University
-
Concordia University Chair in Consumption, Markets, and Society, Concordia University
-
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
-
Invited User
-
Assistant Professor, University of Guelph
