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Meme War Weekly

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  • Antifa Supersoldiers Have You Surrounded

    Antifa Supersoldiers Have You Surrounded

    During the 2016 presidential campaign season, chaos agents and political partisans used memes to drive particular disinformation…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Sep 29, 2020
    Memes as Vigilantism: The Multi-Racial Right and Anti-Black Racism

    Memes as Vigilantism: The Multi-Racial Right and Anti-Black Racism

    Welcome back to Meme War Weekly. We took a short break in August to get situated and finish up some on-going projects. During the pandemic…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Sep 16, 2020
    A Family Affair: The Trumps and Distributed Racism

    A Family Affair: The Trumps and Distributed Racism

    The 2020 meme wars took an unexpected turn in late July after Trump featured the Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue in a White House event…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Jul 24, 2020
    Should Have Let Us Grill

    Should Have Let Us Grill

    “McCloskey” is a relatively rare name. However, this week it has become a household staple forever linked to an incident where an affluent…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Jul 2, 2020
    Full Blexit — The Battle for the Heart of Black Conservatism

    Full Blexit — The Battle for the Heart of Black Conservatism

    As we continue our deep dive into the many networked factions that make up the MAGA coalition of 2020, here we draw attention to three…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Jun 26, 2020
    Postcards from the Edgelords: Alt Right 2.0

    Postcards from the Edgelords: Alt Right 2.0

    Leading up to the 2016 election, a coalition of far right actors, who dubbed themselves the “alt-right,” captured the media spotlight and…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Jun 22, 2020
    Put A Q On It

    Put A Q On It

    In this week’s Meme War Weekly, we continue to look at the memes of the “new deplorables,” the groups that make up the MAGA coalition…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    May 29, 2020
    You Can’t Spell #ObaMAGAte without MAGA

    You Can’t Spell #ObaMAGAte without MAGA

    Keyboard warriors, redpills, #Obamagate: within a weeks time, Donald Trump and his family shared a series of keywords, slogans video clips…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    May 22, 2020
    Envisioning Real Dystopias

    Envisioning Real Dystopias

    We were already observing a wild week full of hoaxes, scams, disinformation, and anti-science conspiracies, when an unexpected package…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    May 13, 2020
    Transnational Meme Wars: #MilkTeaAlliance

    Transnational Meme Wars: #MilkTeaAlliance

    April 30, 2020 — What began as a Twitter war between pro-China accounts targeting Thai celebrities — whose social media activity was…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 30, 2020
    Where We Go One, We All Get Sick

    Where We Go One, We All Get Sick

    April 23, 2020  — On April 17, President Trump sent out a series of Tweets commanding the ‘liberation’ of Michigan, Virginia, and…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 28, 2020
    Fauci Goes Viral

    Fauci Goes Viral

    April 16, 2020 — Much to the chagrin of President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci has become the star of the daily White House Coronavirus…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
    Bernie’s Out/No Refunds

    Bernie’s Out/No Refunds

    April 10, 2020 — On Wednesday, April 8, Bernie Sanders withdrew from the Democratic Primary race for a second time...
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
    Where’s Joe? Rumors and Forgeries in the Democratic Primary

    Where’s Joe? Rumors and Forgeries in the Democratic Primary

    April 3, 2020 — In the absence of confirmed information, speculation and conspiracy flourishes. The coincidence of COVID-19 and the…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
    Winnie the Flu — When Memes Go Global

    Winnie the Flu — When Memes Go Global

    March 24, 2020 — Truly viral memes jump from platform to platform, being remixed along a number of dimensions as they change hands:…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
    When Forced Memes Backfire

    When Forced Memes Backfire

    March 18, 2020 — In modern political campaigns, the division between official and unofficial promotional materials is easy to blur. While…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
    Super Tuesday is for Dunking

    Super Tuesday is for Dunking

    March 10, 2020 — In the days leading up to and following Super Tuesday, we collected a series of memes that were performing well on social…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
    Lock Her Up? The Long Tail of Viral Slogans

    Lock Her Up? The Long Tail of Viral Slogans

    March 6, 2020 — Besides Trump, there was no bigger opponent to Hillary Clinton in 2016 than Roger Stone. In the lead up to the 2016…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
    Ok, Bloomer

    Ok, Bloomer

    February 25, 2020 — In early Feb 2020, Bloomberg’s campaign, in collaboration with promotional company Jerry Media, launched…
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    Technology and Social Change Research Project
    Apr 18, 2020
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