D Ging - Men and masculinities, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Since the emergence of Web 2.0 and social media, a particularly toxic brand of antifeminism has become evident across a range of online networks and platforms. Despite multiple …
How memetic media—aggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformed—become a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates …
T Highfield, T Leaver - Communication research and practice, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Visual content is a critical component of everyday social media, on platforms explicitly framed around the visual (Instagram and Vine), on those offering a mix of text and images in …
S Banet-Weiser, KM Miltner - Feminist media studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
in september 2015, the hashtag# masculinitysoFragile was trending on twitter. the ostensible purpose of the hashtag was to illustrate the precariousness of “toxic masculinity,” …
This article explores the workings of memes as cultural capital in web-based communities. A grounded analysis of 4chan's/b/board reveals three main formulations of memes as capital …
From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage …
In September 2010, a video titled “It Gets Better” was uploaded to YouTube, responding to suicides of gay teens who had suffered from homophobic bullying. Before long, thousands of …
Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication. Despite its important role in practices such as curating, tagging, and searching content, there …
The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our …