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2019, Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age
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Know Your Meme, Mine is Caps!: Caps Phenomenon in Turkey is a chapter in an edited collection "Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age" by Ahmet Atay and Margaret U. D’Silva. It focuses on "caps", a form of Internet memes, in Turkey.
INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH, 2017
Caps phenomenon has made its mark on Turkish digital spheres in the last decade. We encounter caps, simply an amalgam of visual and textual components pieced together mostly for fun and humour, anytime we are online: They are anonymously, or with a nickname, generated and propagated across several websites ranging from social networking sites, blogs, forums to online web sites of daily Turkish newspapers, and so on. However, caps seem to be overlooked and understudied in Turkey: On official website of Thesis Center of Council of Higher Education , no thesis upon caps phenomenon was found, and in search of articles, only one (Karataş and Binark, 2016: 426-488) partly related to it was identified on Dergi Park Akademik, and another on International Peer-Reviewed Journal of Communication and Humanities Research (Bozkuş, 2016: 540-565). In this paper, I aim to discuss photo-based caps trend in Turkey in pursuit of probabilities of why they have been popularized in our digital age. First of all, I will introduce the international literature. Secondly, I will fix my attention to incicaps.com, the founding father of caps in Turkey even though various digital platforms and apps provided by smart gadgets enable users to generate caps today. Finally, I will put what primary attributes caps, known as ‘Internet memes’ across the globe, as user-generated contents mediated in process of communication possess.
INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND HUMANITIES RESEARCHES, 2017
Rising significance of social media in protest movements has led to the dissemination of the Internet subculture among young people in Turkey. Using visual rhetoric, the Internet memes carry a set of symbols and ideals that transmitted socio-political structure on the Internet. The story memes is crucial in understanding the digital culture as the identity of an Internet subculture, but also as a cultural artifact. Memes are influenced by the behavior of social groups, especially the mobs. The aim of this study is to analyze populism and polyvocal public discourse through Internet memes of the Gezi Park movement. This article considers the centrality of the intertextual nature of memes as a unique form of visual rhetoric and contributes to user-generated activist rhetoric in the social media. The Internet memes carry on visual political rhetoric and facilitate conversation between diverse positions. As a case study, Gezi Park are analyzed as to explore memes explore the manifestation, behavior and ideal of the public movement in Turkey.
2018
Social networks’ users as well as Internet portals, forums, web-pages, blogs etc. have developed their own unique communicational system that might seem incomprehensible to people above a certain age, with little to no internet presence. These systems enables them to communicate freely their ideas, thoughts, jokes, funny anecdotes as well as their critiques towards their societies and political leaders in a much more creative way than the traditional. This Internet-communicational system mostly relies on the usage of emoticons, GIFs and memes. This paper will focus on the memes as one of the internet communication phenomena and their specific socio-linguistic features that make them vastly interesting to both linguists and sociologists. Memes, as defined, are part of the online culture; mostly jokes, that are presented through mediums such as image+text or GIF+text combinations or just plain text and are spread virally on all Internet-based platforms, changing along the way. This pa...
Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, 2024
This study investigates the sociological impact and linguistic characteristics of memes, focusing on their prevalence in online social media platforms. Utilizing content analysis, a diverse collection of memes was systematically analyzed to identify themes, linguistic elements, and cultural references embedded within them. In the age of information, memes are cultural units that are replicated and widely disseminated from one person to another through jokes, rumors, videos, animation, photographs Dube, et al (2018).). The data collection process involved gathering memes from various online sources, while the data analysis encompassed thematic exploration and linguistic examination of the memes. The findings reveal insights into how memes serve as mirrors of societal trends, generational disparities, and cultural dynamics. Memes emerged as potent vehicles for social connection, selfexpression, and cultural commentary within digital communities. This study underscores the multifaceted nature of memes and their significance in contemporary digital discourse, emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of their sociological and linguistic dimensions.
Social Media in Southeast Turkey, 2016
, and our supporting mentor, Daniel Miller. Their continuous invaluable assistance, help and advice in London, and during field work through Skype and email have been precious. This research would not have been possible without the help and support of the warm and hospitable people I met in Mardin. I am extremely grateful to hundreds of friends and research participants who trusted me, opened their houses and lives, engaged with me and answered my questions. I would also like to thank my research assistants, who prefer to remain anonymous, and colleagues at Mardin Artuklu University and the British Institute at Ankara. I would like to thank Luigi Achilli, Fabio Vicini and the anonymous reviewer for helpful suggestions. I am especially grateful to Marina De Giorgi, whose presence during field work and writing-up has been so precious and supportive. I would also like to thank my mother, brother and friends in London, Italy, Turkey and the world, who, despite geographical distance, have all been present and supportive in different ways. ix Contents List of figures x 1. Introduction: Welcome to Mardin 2. The social media landscape: Individuals and groups in the local media ecology 3. Visual posting: Showing off and shifting boundaries between private and public 4. Relationships: Kinship, family and friends 5. Hidden romance and love 6. The wider world: Politics, the visible and the invisible 7. Conclusion: What kind of social change? Notes References Index
Internet Memes transverse and sometimes transcend cyberspace on the back of impossibly cute LOLcats speaking mangled English and the snarky remarks of Image Macro characters always on the lookout for someone to undermine. No longer the abstract notion of a cultural gene that Dawkins (2006) introduced in the late 1970s, memes have now become synonymous with a particular brand of vernacular language that internet users engage by posting, sharing and remixing digital content as they communicate jokes, emotions and opinions. For the purpose of this research the language of Internet Memes is understood as visual, succinct and capable of inviting active engagement by users who encounter digital content online that exhibits said characteristics. Internet Memes were explored through an Arts-Based Educational Research framework by first identifying the conventions that shape them and then interrogating these conventions during two distinct research phases. In the first phase the researcher, as a doctoral student in art and visual culture education, engaged class readings and assignments by generating digital content that not only responded to the academic topics at hand but did so through forms associated with Internet Memes like Image Macros and Animated GIFs. In the second phase the researcher became a meme literacy facilitator as learners in three different age-groups were led in the reading, writing and remixing of memes during a month-long summer art camp where they were also exposed to other art-making processes such as illustration, acting and sculpture. Each group of learners engaged age-appropriate meme types: 1) the youngest group, 6 and 7 year-olds, wrote Emoji Stories and Separated at Birth memes; 2) the middle group, 8-10 year-olds, worked with Image Macros and Perception memes, 3) while the oldest group, 11-13 year-olds, generated Image Macros and Animated GIFs. The digital content emerging from both research phases was collected as data and analyzed through a hybrid of Memetics, Actor-Network Theory, Object Oriented Ontology, Remix Theory and Glitch Studies as the researcher shifted shapes yet again and became a Research Jockey sampling freely from each field of study. A case is made for Internet Memes to be understood as an actor-network where meme collectives, individual cybernauts, software and source material are all actants interrelating and making each other enact collective agencies through shared authorships. Additionally specific educational contexts are identified where the language of Internet Memes can serve to incorporate technology, storytelling, visual thinking and remix practices into art and visual culture education. Finally, the document reporting on the research expands on the hermeneutics of Internet Memes and the phenomenological experiences they elicit that are otherwise absent from traditional scholarly prose. Chapter by chapter the dissertation was crafted as a journey from the academic to the whimsical, from the lecture hall to the image board (where Internet Memes were born), from the written word to the remixed image as a visual language that is equal parts form and content that emerges and culminates in a concluding chapter composed almost entirely of popular Internet Meme types. An online component can be found at http://memeducation.org/
In recent years, the improvement of the new communication technologies has made it necessary to return the focus on verbal culture. In the messages transmitted in the social media which developed within the internet, the irregular and false use of Turkish is remarkable together with meaningless structures generated because of using English and Turkish simultaneously. This condition results in a different language which is not suitable for literacy. This article aims to extensively examine this structure of verbal culture which is newly generated due to the internet and demonstrate the contemporary transformations of the Turkish language.
2021
Memes have become an increasingly common form of modern communication, which has recently attracted great research interest. In this article we analyze "language - memes", its influence on digital culture and collective thinking. The Internet, by expanding social content, contributes to the variability of cultural codes and consequently changes an individual’s cultural identity throughout life. The culture composed of cultural groups is defined as a kind of macro-code, consisting of numerous codes that are commonly used to interpret reality among members of the cyber community. Identity is also transmitted through the use of a specific language during interaction, which is a marker of discourse, in which Memes represent a distinctive business card. Linguists, as well as specialists in other disciplines (such as philosophy, anthropology) use each other’s work to study the interrelationships and mutual influences of language and culture. The study proposed a hypothesis about...
A survey of Internet Memes to determine what makes them more likely to spread across the planet. Results were complicated due to a variety of factors, but pointed to Pop Culture memes as being eminently popular, with their context being learnable due to the ease of access to media from across the world almost immediately. Ease of internet access and type of device accessed from, as well as social pressures and censorship have a significant obfuscating effect, and a wider, more comprehensive study is warranted.
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