Social media's role in the spread and evolution of extremism is a focus of intense study.
Online extremists have been involved in the spread of online hate, mis/disinformation, and …

New materialist methods often frame networked images as dynamic, bouncing across the
network in contiguous and proximate iterations. Positing that a networked life of an image …

While the use of memes as a persuasive strategy by the alt-right in the 2016 election gave
rise to the notion that the left had been thoroughly outflanked in the meme wars, this project …

During the 2020 US presidential election, Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty starred in
political election-related memes as Philadelphia voters became central to the election …

The purpose of this study is to understand the subcultural and commercial overlap that exists
in the physical signifiers conspicuously co-opted by attendees and artists at Fest, a punk …

The present milieu is characterized most sharply by the threat of environmental catastrophe
and the cascading crises precipitated by the climate crisis. Increasingly, this era of …

This dissertation examines the constitutive functions of multimodal cancer rhetoric in
America and critiques the resulting ideological consequences. This study locates the …

In the summer of 2022, millions of Americans watched as the Supreme Court announced its
decision on Dobbsv. JacksonWomen'sHealthOrganization. The decision was monumental …