Module 2 Presentation Slides (Downloadable PDF)

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Image credit: Carlos Ramirez (2008) Source: Know Your Meme

Source: Sports de Nature (2019)

Papa Coolface/Know Your Meme (2012)

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Phillips 2015, 26) 1) trolls are “in on the joke”; their targets are not 2) trolling targets are often socially marginalized

Source: Meme Generator

Photo credit: Chet Strange/Getty Images (July 8, 2017) Extremists © 2019 The Regents of the University of California [email protected] “The Algorithmic Rise of the ‘Alt-Right’” (Jessie Daniels/Contexts 2018, 63) the algorithmic rise of the “alt-right” by jessie daniels

memes abhor fame-seeking fame can be useful of all sorts coordinated harassment

political motivations motivated by “lulz” anti-political and objectives correctness

Source: 4chan.org/pol/ c. 2018 Source: stormfront.org c. 2018

Source: Wikimedia

© 2019 The Regents of the University of California Alternative Inﬂuence (Rebecca Lewis/Data & Society Institute 2018, 10) [email protected] © 2019 The Regents of the University of California [email protected] © 2019 The Regents of the University of California [email protected] Source: Paste Magazine

Source: Reddit (August 19, 2014) © 2019 The Regents of the University of California [email protected] (August 27, 2014) (October 11, 2014) © 2019 The Regents of the University of California [email protected] Mike Snider/USA Today (July 18, 2017)

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (2017) Source: Wikimedia

Image credit: Matt Furie (2005) Source: Anti-Defamation League Source: imgﬂip © 2019 The Regents of the University of California [email protected] Source: VDARE.com © 2019 The Regents of the University of California [email protected] The Oxygen of Ampliﬁcation (Whitney Phillips/Data & Society Institute 2018, 4)