Communicating With Memes - Consequences in Post-Truth Civilization

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Grant Kien is a professor in the Department of Communication at California State University, East Bay.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Grant Kien, Kien Grant
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781498551335
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5133-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Communication Perspectives in; Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies