Embracing LOLitics: Popular Culture, Online Political Humor, and Play

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Embracing LOLitics: Popular Culture, Online Political Humor, and Play

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The Internet, and Web 2.0 tools can empower audiences to actively participate in media creation. This allows the production of large quantities of content, both amateur and professional. Online memes, which are extensions of usually citizen-created viral content, are a recent and popular example of this. This thesis examines the participation of ordinary individuals in political culture online through humor creation. It focuses on citizen-made political humor memes as an example of engaged ci...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2012

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Tay, Geniesa

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7091

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digital media / popular culture / news media / politics / political humor / play theory / jokes / comedy / Internet culture / viral media / online media / textual poaching / memes / remix / lolcats / lolitics / Internet memes / political satire / participatory culture / online spaces / political cartoons / political commentary / social media / discourse analysis / narrative analysis / textual analysis / case studies / crowdsourcing / language / new literacy / political criticism / barack obama / 9/11 / osama bin laden / joe biden / john mccain / sarah palin / vladimir putin / stephen colbert / jon stewart / star wars / the daily show / the colbert report / saturday night live / south park / zombies / comics / reddit / tumblr / twitter / photoshop / photomanipulation / online humor / fanfiction / best thesis ever / celebrity culture / tabloid journalism / gaffes / presidential elections / citizen culture / political participation / affinity spaces / parody / intertextuality / virtual communities

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