Beers, Bros, and Brett: memes and the visual ideograph of the &lt;Angry White Man&gt;

Stassen, Heather M.; Bates, Benjamin R.

doi:10.1080/01463373.2020.1787477

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“…Despite the value of visuals in the online messaging process, only a small number of ideographic studies have examined media products distributed online. Stassen and Bates (2020), for example, analyze online memes associated with <angry white male> around the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh. The authors conclude that online memes, when viewed in combination with one another, can create an ideological narrative to "represent and perpetuate factions" (p. 351).…”

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“…Whether their articulated evolutionary process applies either in the case of visual ideographs or in the context of stand-alone, emergent communities operating online, however, remains unexplored. Stassen and Bates (2020) offer a starting point when they argue that visual ideographs only emerge after online audiences generate a compilation of memes in response to a controversial event. This study expands on their finding by examining how a constellation of icons and compositional elements connected to the definitional characteristics of ideographs merge to form representative visual forms for global collectives in formation.…”

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Revisiting representative form in ISIS media: How emerging collectives reconstitute communities in the 21st century

Winkler

2022

Front. Commun.

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This study reconsiders the concepts of representative form and visual ideographs in the context of collectives-in-formation heavily reliant on the online environment to communicate with global audiences. Focusing on the online media products of ISIS, the study conducts a quantitative content analysis of over 9,000 images that the group distributed from 2014 to 2020, coupled with a qualitative assessment of the group's religious and institutional contexts. The findings add to current understandings of how reconstituted communities develop visual ideographs by showing how predictable constellations of iconic and non-iconic compositional elements combine to create representative forms and how non-parodied images can also function as ideographs. The study also documents that ISIS uses differential language-based targeting strategies for visual ideographs and demonstrates how institutional definitions can serve as critical intervening variables for understanding the reinforcing relationship that can exist between icons and verbal ideographs.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Contributions To Existing Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%