TY - BOOK AU - Kien,Grant TI - Communicating with memes: consequences in post-truth civilization T2 - Communication perspectives in popular culture SN - 9781498551342 AV - HM626 .K54 2019 U1 - 302.23/1 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. KW - Memes KW - Social media KW - Internet KW - Social aspects KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Political aspects KW - EBSCO eBooks KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Memes and memetic communication -- Our digital steamworks -- Rehash(tagged) -- Urgency and emergency -- Living the discrete life -- Digital moral panics and mass hysteria -- Bitty, ungrand narratives -- All in the hive -- Ironic camouflage -- Immortal misinformation -- Memetic politics and armchair activism -- Twenty-first century witch hunting -- Looks good man: aesthetic dominance -- We're all situationists now -- Ethical (r)evolution N2 - "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"--Publisher's description UR - https://www.lib.tsu.ru/limit/2023/EBSCO/2138870.pdf ER -