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The art of memes in feminist digital culture / Shana MacDonald.

Van Pelt Library HM626 .M325 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
MacDonald, Shana, author.
Series:
Digital media, feminist resistance
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Memes--Social aspects.
Memes.
Memes--Political aspects.
Digital media--Social aspects.
Digital media.
Digital media--Political aspects.
Feminism.
Social media.
Internet and activism.
feminism.
social media.
Physical Description:
xi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]
Summary:
"Examines activist memes as a form of digital resistance, demonstrating that countercultural meme makers, like practitioners of earlier countercultural art movements, intervene in the status quo and offer cultural critiques with potentially broad circulation"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: Countercultural aesthetics and medium specificity in the digital era
Collage, juxtaposition, and spatial collapse
Reenactment, nostalgia, and performative ruptures
Montage and the memetic assemblage of attractions
Conclusion: Embracing the pleasure activism of joyscrolling.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index.
ISBN:
9780814214954
0814214959
9780814259566
0814259561
OCLC:
1514665389

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