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A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.
Humour is now part of the modern election campaign. Facebook and TikTok have become joke battlegrounds.
How do a country and its citizens deal with the trauma of a deadly invasion by an enemy? Memes, cats and TikToks are emerging – most recently in the Ukraine war – as a way to cope with tragedy.
Fast-moving viral memes create space for low-stakes, humorous and wholesome engagement on often toxic social media platforms
Humour can be key to coping with pandemic-related stress.
Social media during the pandemic is not all doom scrolling and despair. Lighter memes have psychological benefits.
Less attractive endangered species don’t tend to receive the same public attention as their more beautiful counterparts: new studies show how we might help change that.
Viral memes and catchphrases can turn personal experiences into a political expression of shared awareness.
As the effects of the pandemic intensify, so does the importance of the choice of language.
Despite having no real basis as a financial asset, cryptocurrency Dogecoin recently reached a market cap of more than A$12 billion.
A small band of Reddit users have driven GameStop shares to incredible highs at the expense of multi-billion-dollar hedge funds.
Our social connections and interactions form networks. Studying these networks reveal the ways in which both memes and viruses travel through populations
Memes that promote harmful conspiracies and memes that mock them are sometimes hard to distinguish.
Humour is a way for Congolese internet users to prod at cultural traits and political developments – despite censorship being rife.
One meme can lead to another – and then to a conspiracy theory.
Political satire is not dead – but it’s had to adapt since Donald Trump’s election.
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.
Successful memes don’t often happen by accident. And COVID-19 has become a popular topic for their creators.
Dads have taken over TikTok since social isolation began. More than a way to kill time at home, laughter and fun dancing times can build family bonds, reduce stress and cultivate a resilient mindset.
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, College of Charleston
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Professor, UCL
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Assistant professor, Utrecht University
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Senior lecturer, University of Lincoln
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Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technology, Kansas State University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Baylor University
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Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Principal Research Fellow and Co-Director, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
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Professor Communications and Media, University of Canberra
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MPhil Graduate Student at the School of Journalism and Communication, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
