Politics - The Meme Studies Index

Title	Year	Resource Type	Tags
"By Any Memes Necessary": Exploring the Intersectional Politics of Feminist Memes on Instagram Caitlin Breheny MA Dissertation, University of Uppsala	2017	MA Dissertation	Instagram Feminism Gender Identity Politics
Indigenous Memes and the Invention of a People Ryan Frazer Bronwyn Carlson Social Media + Society 3 (4): https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117738993	2017	Article (Journal)	Identity Indigenous Politics
Persuasion through bitter humor: Multimodal discourse analysis of rhetoric in internet memes of two far-right groups in Finland Eemeli Hakoköngäs Otto Halmesvaara Inari Sakki Social Media + Society 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120921575	2020	Article (Journal)	Far-right Identity Politics Rhetoric Finland
"Kim Davis be like ... ": a feminist critique of gender humor in online political memes Summer Harlow Jerrica Ty Rowlett Laura-Kate Huse Information, Communication & Society 23 (7): 1057-73.	2018	Article (Journal)	Feminism Politics
Youth Collective Political Expression on Social Media: The Role of Affordances and Memetic Dimensions for Voicing Political Views Loana Literat Neta Kligler-Vilenchik New Media & Society 21 (9): 1988-2009. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819837571	2019	Article (Journal)	Identity Memes as Capital Politics
Attack of the 50-foot social justice warrior: The discursive construction of SJW memes as monstrous feminine Adrienne Massanari Shira Chess Feminist Media Studies 18 (4): 525-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1447333	2018	Article (Journal)	Feminism Gender Politics Social Justice Warrior
'It's So Hard Not to Be Funny in This Situation': Memes and Humor in U.S. Youth Online Political Expression. Joel Penney Television & New Media https://doi.org/10/ggcvgd	2019	Article (Journal)	Identity Politics Rhetoric US
Memes, Digital Remix Culture and (Re)Mediating British Politics and Public Life Francesca Sobande IPPR Progressive Review 26 (2): 151-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/newe.12155	2019	Article (Journal)	Identity Politics Remix culture UK
Boogaloo and Civil War 2: Memetic Antagonism in Expressions of Covert Activism Bradley E. Wiggins New Media & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820945317	2020	Article (Journal)	Identity Politics Trolling and antagonism US
From Counter-Power to Counter-Pepe: The Vagaries of Participatory Epistemology in a Digital Age C.W. Anderson Matthias Revers Media and Communication 6 (4): 24. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i4.1492	2018	Article (Journal)	Pepe Politics Trolling and antagonism
The Dissonance of "Civil" Religion in Religious-Political Memetic Discourse During the 2016 Presidential Elections Heidi E. Campbell Katherine Arredondo Katie Dundas Cody Wolf Social Media + Society 4 (2): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118782678	2018	Article (Journal)	Elections Politics Religion US
Turning a Communist Party Leader into an Internet Meme: The Political and Apolitical Aspects of China's Toad Worship Culture Kecheng Fang Information, Communication & Society 23 (1): 38-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1485722	2020	Article (Journal)	Politics China
Partisan cues and internet memes: Early evidence for motivated skepticism in audience message processing of spreadable political media Heidi E. Huntington Atlantic Journal of Communication 28 (3): 194-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2019.1614589	2020	Article (Journal)	Partisanship Politics Skepticism
Pepper Spray Cop and the American Dream: Using Synecdoche and Metaphor to Unlock Internet Memes Heidi E. Huntington Communication Studies 67 (1): 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2015.1087414	2016	Article (Journal)	Politics Rhetoric Synecdoche Visual rhetoric US
Leftist Memes Are Everywhere on Instagram. Now Their Creators Are Unionizing Rebecca Jennings Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/22/18507941/instagram-meme-union	2019	Article (Digital Magazine)	Instagram Leftist memes Leftist politics Politics Unionism
Good Citizenship as a Frame Contest: Kony2012, Memes, and Critiques of the Networked Citizen Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Kjerstin Thorson New Media & Society 18 (9): 1993-2011. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444815575311	2016	Article (Journal)	Citizenship Kony2012 Network culture Politics
Sweden Then vs. Sweden Now Samuel Merrill First Monday 25 (6): https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i6.10552	2020	Article (Journal)	Facebook Discourse Far-right Politics Rhetoric Sweden
Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power An Xiao Mina Boston: Beacon Press 9780807056585	2019	Book	Civic expression Politics Resistance Social movements
Analysis of Facebook Meme Groups Used During the 2016 US Presidential Election Mia Moody-Ramirez Andrew B. Church Social Media + Society 5 (1): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118808799	2019	Article (Journal)	Facebook Civic expression Content analysis Politics Social media US
Memes, scenes and #ELXN2019s: How partisans make memes during elections Fenwick McKelvey Scott DeJong Janna Frenzel New Media & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211020690	2021	Article (Journal)	Facebook Elections Partisanship Political campaign Politics Canada
Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes Constance de Saint Laurent Vlad Glăveanu Ioana Literat Social Media + Society 7 (1): https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305121988932	2021	Article (Journal)	Reddit COVID-19 Narrative Politics Psychology
From Polarization to Hate: Portrait of the Spanish Political Meme Juan-Manuel González-Aguilar María Antonia Paz Ana Mayagoitia-Soria Social Media + Society 7 (4): https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211062920	2021	Article (Journal)	Twitter Hate Speech Political communication Politics Public discourse Spain

"By Any Memes Necessary": Exploring the Intersectional Politics of Feminist Memes on Instagram

Indigenous Memes and the Invention of a People

Persuasion through bitter humor: Multimodal discourse analysis of rhetoric in internet memes of two far-right groups in Finland

"Kim Davis be like ... ": a feminist critique of gender humor in online political memes

Youth Collective Political Expression on Social Media: The Role of Affordances and Memetic Dimensions for Voicing Political Views

Attack of the 50-foot social justice warrior: The discursive construction of SJW memes as monstrous feminine

'It's So Hard Not to Be Funny in This Situation': Memes and Humor in U.S. Youth Online Political Expression.

Memes, Digital Remix Culture and (Re)Mediating British Politics and Public Life

Boogaloo and Civil War 2: Memetic Antagonism in Expressions of Covert Activism

From Counter-Power to Counter-Pepe: The Vagaries of Participatory Epistemology in a Digital Age

The Dissonance of "Civil" Religion in Religious-Political Memetic Discourse During the 2016 Presidential Elections

Turning a Communist Party Leader into an Internet Meme: The Political and Apolitical Aspects of China's Toad Worship Culture

Partisan cues and internet memes: Early evidence for motivated skepticism in audience message processing of spreadable political media

Pepper Spray Cop and the American Dream: Using Synecdoche and Metaphor to Unlock Internet Memes

Leftist Memes Are Everywhere on Instagram. Now Their Creators Are Unionizing

Good Citizenship as a Frame Contest: Kony2012, Memes, and Critiques of the Networked Citizen

Sweden Then vs. Sweden Now

Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power

Analysis of Facebook Meme Groups Used During the 2016 US Presidential Election

Memes, scenes and #ELXN2019s: How partisans make memes during elections

Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes

From Polarization to Hate: Portrait of the Spanish Political Meme