Logics: The Fundamentals of Memetic Participation (2024)

The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media

Ryan M. Milner

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2016

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9780262335911

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9780262034999

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Milner, Ryan M., 'Logics: The Fundamentals of Memetic Participation', The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media (Cambridge, MA, 2016; online edn, MIT Press Scholarship Online, 18 May 2017), https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262034999.003.0002, accessed 13 Sept. 2024.

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the fundamentals of memetic media. It traces the (imperfect) connections between conceptualizations of memes as cultural replicators and the mediated texts that have come to bear the name in pop cultural parlance. It then outlines five fundamental logics central to memetic participation. Memetic media are unique for their multimodality (their expression in multiple modes of communication), reappropriation (their “poaching” of existing texts), resonance (their connections to individual participants), collectivism (their social creation and transformation), and spread (their circulation through mass networks). These logics persist beyond individual texts, and are lynchpins for public conversations occurring across mediated contexts.

Keywords: Internet Memes, Memetics, Media Studies, Participatory Culture, Discourse Analysis

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Technology and Society

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