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Title	Year	Resource Type	Tags
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
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
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
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
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
"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

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

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

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

Sweden Then vs. Sweden Now

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

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

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