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Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, including online harassment, the election of Donald Trump, and the resurgence of once-eradicated diseases. The author examines the causes of these consequences, and what action—if any—should be taken in response.
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.
Chapter 1—Memes and Memetic Communication
Chapter 2—Our Digital Steam Works
Chapter 3—Rehash(tagged)
Chapter 4—Urgency and Emergency
Chapter 5—Living the Discrete Life
Chapter 6—Digital Moral Panics and Mass Hysteria
Chapter 7—Bitty, Ungrand Narratives
Chapter 8—All in the Hive
Chapter 9—Ironic Camouflage
Chapter 10—Immortal Misinformation
Chapter 11— Memetic Politics and Armchair Activism
Chapter 12—21st Century Witch Hunting
Chapter 13—Looks Good Man (Aesthetic Dominance)
Chapter 14—We’re All Situationists Now
Chapter 15—Ethical (R)evolution