University of Kentucky UKnowledge Journalism and Media Faculty Publications Journalism and Media 3-15-2020 The Role of Popular Media in 2016 US Presidential Election Memes Kyra Osten Hunting University of Kentucky,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/jat_facpub Part of the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Mass Communication Commons, and the Social Media Commons Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits ou.y Repository Citation Hunting, Kyra Osten, "The Role of Popular Media in 2016 US Presidential Election Memes" (2020). Journalism and Media Faculty Publications. 7. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/jat_facpub/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism and Media at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journalism and Media Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Role of Popular Media in 2016 US Presidential Election Memes Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1785 Notes/Citation Information Published in Transformative Works and Cultures, v. 32. Copyright © 2020 Kyra Osten Hunting This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This article is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/jat_facpub/7 Theory The role of popular media in 2016 US presidential election memes Kyra Osten Hunting University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States [0.1] Abstract—The 2016 US presidential election was marked by the extensive role that social media played in the construction of the candidates as well as by the growth of a number of forms of digital political rhetoric, including memes.