The Journal of Visual Culture has released a special themed issue on internet memes! You can read and download the entire issue here.
The Journal of Visual Culture offers astute, informative and dynamic thought on the visual. The journal publishes work from a range of methodological positions on various historical moments and across diverse geographical locations. It is the leading interdisciplinary forum for visual culture studies scholars in film, media and television studies; art, design, fashion and architecture history; cultural studies and critical theory; philosophy and aesthetics; and across the social sciences.
Table of Contents:
Laine Nooney and Laura Portwood-Stacer
One Does Not Simply: An Introduction to the Special Issue on
Internet Memes 248
Peter Lunenfeld
Barking at Memetics: The Rant That Wasn’t 253
Lisa Nakamura
‘I WILL DO EVERYthing That Am Asked’: Scambaiting, Digital Show-Space,
and the Racial Violence of Social Media 257
Patrick Davison
Because of the Pixels: On the History, Form, and Influence of MS Paint 275
Jason Eppink
A brief history of the GIF (so far) 298
Kate Brideau and Charles Berret
A Brief Introduction to Impact: ‘The Meme Font’ 307
Nick Douglas
It’s Supposed to Look Like Shit: The Internet Ugly Aesthetic 314
Limor Shifman
The Cultural Logic of Photo-Based Meme Genres 340
An Xiao Mina
Batman, Pandaman and the Blind Man: A Case Study in Social
Change Memes and Internet Censorship in China 359
Tim Hwang and Christina Xu
‘Lurk More’: An Interview with the Founders of ROFLCon 376
Jonathan Zittrain
Reflections on Internet Culture 388