![]() ![]() ![]() As I demonstrated in my dissertation, women are often depicted as objects of male fantasy, as undesirable, or as lacking intelligence (Sparby, 2017a). In addition, it’s no secret that women often get a short shrift when it comes to memetic representation. These kinds of memes have the power to preclude possibilities for productive discourse, which in the heat of the 2016 election turned out to be quite dangerous to democracy. I use “innocuous” and “dangerous” here intentionally. They are often light trolling at their most innocuous and downright inflammatory at their most dangerous. These memes often depict recognizable political figures in the center, and the text can include anything from hostile invective or sharp critique to high praise or support. When it comes to political memes from around the 2016 election, a number of both analog and digital memetic artifacts circulated, including MAGA hats, phrases like “basket of deplorables,” gifs of Trump tackling news logos, and image macro memes -the latter of which I will analyze in this presentation. With the rise of digital technologies we’ve moved well beyond this analogic definition, but the core-the transmission of cultural information-remains intact. When Richard Dawkins (1976) coined the term long before the social web was even a conceivable reality, he defined it as cultural information spread from person to person (like genes, but with culture). ![]() Before I begin, it might be useful to provide a working definition of memes, because they can take many forms. I can talk some preliminary thoughts in the Q&A if anyone is interested. It really came down to, this is going to be kind of a surface level examination, and I’m okay with giving the old white lady the surface level treatment, but the women of color memes deserve a fuller look because there are so many more intersecting oppressions to unpack. I also wanted to bring in some memes with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Maxine Waters but in the interest of time could not. As such, this presentation pulls these three threads together, examining Hillary Clinton memes to reveal how memes function as demagoguery and propaganda that aim to spread disinformation. As a rhetorical meme scholar, I’m interested in how memes are used as vehicles for political disruption as an intersectional feminist, I’m interested in how women are disproportionately affected by memetic representation as an activist, I’m interested in how we can make meaningful interventions. Presidential election, memes were circulated in support of or opposition to political candidates, and many of these memes became key polarizing sources of disinformation. Also on the reddit thread they are contacting the reporter to see if he will give them the full speech to see if they can remove the static from the video.During the 2016 U.S. The Political Revolution speaks loudly and clearly. ![]() We have to out-spend Clinton in New York and we have to continue out-fundraising her in order to do so. She's gotta resort to hiding her speeches to rich donors by blasting static noise, while Bernie speaks openly of the change we need. She needs to rely on big-money events like this one just to stay afloat, whereas we are changing the game altogether. Well, those margins are closing, and we can very well run her dry out of cash. Last month she spend nearly $33M and only brought in $29.5M, and as we enter the most expensive media markets in the country, she's dumping in $900,000 worth of ad buys, in her home-state, where she's supposed to be cruising, with wide poll margins. Total raised in direct contributions to each campaign, until March 31st:Ĭlinton's billionaire-backed campaign is being out-fundraised by "millennials" who "don't research". The truth is simple: During the first two weeks of April, Clinton has scheduled more than 20 of these high-dollar fundraisers. ![]()
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