This special issue emphasizes memes as an avenue for researching vernacular
expressions of the political. Memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways …

Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide introduces the linguistic
frameworks currently used to analyse language found in social media contexts. This highly …

“In this era of bountiful visual, qualitative and informationalised knowledge of the social
world a conscientious guide to social research is ever more valuable… this is a …

Adding to research on internet memes and humor, this study examines a set of image
macros related to a specific viral media event (ie,“cash me ousside”). This particular meme is …

Political polarization in Spain has been aggravated by a left-wing coalition government and
the rise of the extreme right in the context of health and economic crisis created by COVID …

While officially classified as a right-wing movement, the German Identitarian Movement
(GIM) claims to be neither left nor right wing but rather identitarian. The social movement …

It was late February 2020 when part of Northern Italy entered the first Covid-19 lockdown of
the West. While stories of people fleeing quarantined areas soon made national headlines …

In contexts where media and political actors cannot or will not address crucial issues
important to ordinary people, alternative forms of communication emerge. This article …

ABSTRACT In 2017, the New South Wales Police Force in Australia embarked on a bold
new social media strategy, harnessing humorous Internet memes and cute images of police …

Recently, numerous police organisations have made a strategic decision to employ humour
on social media, via memes and other comical posts, to increase community engagement …