Communicating with Memes

Consequences in Post-truth Civilization

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Grant Kien

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Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, the causes of these consequences, and what action—if any—should be taken in response. Communicating with memes across social media networks has become a commonplace activity in today’s world, despite the fact that just years earlier, this mode of communication was a rarity. The rapid adoption of this new mode of communication through ubiquitous social media and device use is resulting in a major transformation of the ways in which we think and behave in our digital world. From the election of Donald Trump, to online harassment and identity theft, to the resurgence of once-eradicated diseases due to the anti-vaxxer movement, Grant Kien analyzes fourteen major consequences of this shift and confronts the question of how to approach these consequences.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-03
Mått159 x 239 x 23 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCommunication Perspectives in Popular Culture
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498551335

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Chapter 1—Memes and Memetic CommunicationChapter 2—Our Digital Steam WorksChapter 3—Rehash(tagged)Chapter 4—Urgency and EmergencyChapter 5—Living the Discrete LifeChapter 6—Digital Moral Panics and Mass HysteriaChapter 7—Bitty, Ungrand NarrativesChapter 8—All in the HiveChapter 9—Ironic CamouflageChapter 10—Immortal MisinformationChapter 11— Memetic Politics and Armchair Activism Chapter 12—21st Century Witch HuntingChapter 13—Looks Good Man (Aesthetic Dominance)Chapter 14—We’re All Situationists NowChapter 15—Ethical (R)evolution

This stunning book is destined to become a classic. Comparable to Harold Innis' intellectual precision and Marshall McLuhan's global imagination for the electronic era, Grant Kien is the master thinker of today's digital era. Brilliant with theory and deep across the history of ideas, the readability index of this book is a solid ten. Communicating with Memes will be taught and debated with the same long-lasting influence as Wiener's Human Uses of Human Beings and Baudrillard's Simulacres et Simulation.