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2020
There is a lot of people that viewed memes and found them funny and entertaining, but not all people find it funny, the view it as negative, inappropriate, offensive, insulting, annoying, etc. The focus of this study is to gain new knowledge whether the attitudes of students on memes that contain sensitive content is disturbing for them or not because there has been issues about the memes posted on social media that may contain sensitive content for others. In other words, the goal of this study is to know the attitude or behavior and the reactions of the senior high school students towards memes and how they view it. Three questions are set to guide the researchers and ought to answer later on. First, what is the level of awareness of Silliman University Grade 12 STEAM Senior High School students on memes with sensitive content. Second, what would be the possible effects on a person after viewing memes with sensitive content. Lastly, if there is a significant difference of awareness of students towards memes in terms of sex. The data was gathered through an online survey. Based on the data gathered, the researches have safely assumed that the students had an average knowledge of awareness from the harmful content that memes contained. There was no significant difference of awareness in based on sex of an individual. Students have considered memes as somewhat positive and negative at the same time. Nevertheless, citizens of the net should be responsible in utilizing social media.
2019
Nowadays, the Millennials are closely connected with social media which offer a platform for them to share and express their emotions and opinions and have become an important part of their daily lives. Under this situation, a visual form of expression, known as internet memes, has emerged. What's more, cultural memes develop in an extremely fascinating form, gradually becoming the mainstream of social media. Memes have a significant impact on young audiences and the new emerging visual culture may change their perceptions of visual representation on the digital media. This study explores the reasons why the development of memes can achieve great “success” under the current online circumstances. So it is essential to understand the culture behind constitutive memes as well as to observe the emotions and explore the community behind the memetic visual representation in the current social context.
Memes are known as an image that contains text that may persuade individual and group of people to agree in one decision. Internet is the main source to access memes. In this study presents the results of the conducted research about meme innovation on the senior high school students of GAS strand in University of Perpetual Help System Dalta Molino. It aims to know how does internet memes affect and contribute to the communication of the said students. In conducting the study, we used cultivation theory as the theoretical framework. A set of data analysis procedure is used namingly the simple random sampling and the Slovin’s formula. The study gathered data from 217 students of senior high school GAS grade 12 students randomly picked by the researchers. We used the confidence level of 95% and the margin of error 5% out of 450 students. We used descriptive as our method and analysis because it is the most appropriate way of describing how our study affects the students and describing the main features of our data. And with the use of our survey questionnaire, we used the Likert’s scale to construct our questionnaires with items 1 to 10. It is also used to help the respondents determine the answers that will be the most appropriate to fill up the questions.
2022
This study aimed to investigate how young adults perceive and respond to dark humour in memes. Using purposive sampling, we recruited 8 participants aged 18-35, and conducted in-depth interviews with them. The data was analysed qualitatively through thematic coding and we discovered five main themes: conscience, social cognition, discrepancy, participatory culture, and catharsis and emotional arc. Results indicated that participants have a diverse range of understanding of dark humour memes and its usage, with some finding it as a way to cope with difficult emotions, while others found it to be distasteful and offensive. Moreover, the study highlights the importance of considering the impact of culture and context when studying perceptions of dark humour in memes among the youth, and the potential need for further research in this area.
This study is about ‘Psychological effect on youth through memes on facebook, twitter and Instagram’. This study covers all the aspects of memes that how it originated, how it became a trend on social sites, how youth started following and generated memes through which it affected them psychologically, why it became so popular in Pakistan. It also explores how much time youth spend on social sites, and what trends were followed on social media up till now. Moreover in this study, it was examined that how memes are used for multiple purposes specifically for marketing and how it is taking over mediums. In findings it examined which selected social sites (facebook, twitter, Instagram) are used by youth also it examined which kind of memes do majority of youth is following and what youth think about mocking people through memes on social sites. The study was being related to two theories Uses and Gratification and the Cultivation Theory. Social media became the most active media and mostly youth is its audience who actively uses social sites, millions of users’ tag and share memes everyday with each other. Basically it is being discussed how memes became a part of youth’s life in a short period of time.
Self-expression in the social media has been popularized by the use of the digital images called memes. An online dialogue has resulted to an engaging interactive communicative entertainment because of the use of these digital images. This has become an effective way to convey thoughts and feelings that greatly influenced the 21st century youth. The use of memes has been an exceptional tool on engaging conversation, especially emotions that is hard to express using words alone. The focus of this study was to look into the after-effect on the self-expression of the Grade 12 Humanities and Social Sciences students of University of Baguio in the use of these digital images. It aimed to know the significance of memes in their social and academic endeavors with regards to the advantages and disadvantages of using memes when interacting with classmates, friends, and teachers. Findings revealed that a student uses memes more frequent with friends than classmates, and rarely use memes when they interact with their teachers. It showed that memes plays a major role in developing a bond with other classmates and connects their ideas on certain topics while it strengthens their relationship with their friends in an emotional level. Memes also made it easier for them to understand their classmates and friends more, and express their complex ideas easier. While other students also experienced being offended by memes from their classmates and friends and created conflict on their group. In terms of their relationship with teachers, most of them do not use memes as a way of interaction because they see it as a sign of “disrespect”. They feared that the teacher might get offended, and stated that memes have no significance in their studentteacher relationship. On the other hand, some students agreed that they can understand their lessons better through the use of memes. Based on the gathered data, it is concluded that memes have become a factor on student’s self-expression and has a significant role in establishing relationship with classmates and friends. This is because it gives comfort and a better understanding with each other while also makes them feel the belongingness in the group. With regards to its disadvantage, memes can also cause conflicts because of misinterpretation and irresponsible usage. Likewise, most students do not use memes when communicating with teachers because they consider it as unprofessional and disrespectful. 3 This study recommends an in-depth discourse in conducting a study concerning the psychological advantages and disadvantages of using memes that relates to a learner’s academic lifestyle. A feasibility study on using memes as a method of teaching in classroom settings is also recommended. This can be an alternative method of teaching because it conveys complex ideas easier. Keywords: Memes, Self-expression, Students, Relationship, Academics
Geopolitical, Social Security and Freedom Journal
This article presents the results of an international research of using Internet-memes in education process. The writing team set out to explore the reasons and ways of using Internet memes in education in different language spaces – English, Italian, Russian and Chinese. To achieve this goal, a number of tasks were formulated, including: 1. to study the linguistic factor of the use of memes in the educational process, 2. to classify the ways of using memes depending on the purpose, 3. to analyze the content of memes in the liberal, ideological, as well as in the field of exact sciences. The first part of the research made by Alexander Malakhov (PFUR) reveals the basic concepts associated with Internet memes. The second one written by Olga Matys (PFUR) is about using memes in a sphere of Russian liberal education in journalism. The third part of the research made by Ludovico De Serio (University of Genoa) presents an analysis using memes during studying math. The last but not the le...
International Multidisciplinary Conference SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE PRESENT TIME: PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIONS OF UKRAINE AND POLAND, 2018
The article is devoted to the manipulative possibility of memes due to level of memes spreading on Internet social networks especially memes on political issues with both positive and negative background and informative load. The modern world of developing Internet communication spreads out using new technics, thus it is necessary for our research to highlight trendy means of interaction such as meme. Being cultural inheritance it serves to promote different intentions or simply to substitute words which are turned to show emotional state of an interlocutor to make the process of communication easier and to make the process of sharing emotions more picturesque. Communication does not stop developing and those changes depend on the numerous aspects which include lexicology, semantics, pragmatics, grammar, and what is more – psycholinguistics. The article highlights the latest studies of the scientists turned to the memes as a way to manipulate users’ thoughts and ideas. Moreover, the article provides the information which serves to highlight the basic ways and methods of pushing thoughts into the Internet users’ mind in the process of digital interaction. Summing up it is important to stress out that after working out the most popular social networks; there has arisen a need in carrying out an experiment to calculate the statistics of the level of manipulation which is caused by memes.
European Journal of Humor Research, 2021
This study aimed to test a hypothesis about the correlation between levels of gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism and understanding of Internet memes as a specific form of humour. Participants were 45 native speakers of Russian (aged 18-30; 73,3 % female). The levels of Internet memes understanding were assessed independently by two judges with the use of criteria based on the results of a series of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism were assessed with PhoPhiKat <30> questionnaire. J. Raven's "Standard Progressive Matrices" test was used to control the level of psychometric intelligence. Concordance of judges' scores for the understanding of memes was assessed with Kendall's W and ranged from 0.71 to 0.84. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to test the main hypothesis. We found no correlation between the scores for gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism and understanding of Internet memes. Presumably, the type of attitude towards humour does not play a significant role in the understanding of comical texts. The qualitative content analysis of the interview protocols revealed some specific features of cognitive mechanisms of Internet memes understanding. Namely, successful participants with higher levels of understanding of Internet memes reflected more on their thinking process than those with lower levels of understanding of Internet memes, easily switched from an abstract level of reasoning to a concrete one, and tended to consistently develop detailed mental representations of the memes.
2021
Background: In this digital era, memes have changed the way Indonesian generation z communicates on social media. Purpose: To find out Generation Z's perspective on using memes and how they communicate on social media. Question: How do memes affect the way Indonesian generation z communicates on social media? Methods: We used online surveys for quantitative methods with data analysis using descriptive statistical techniques and interviews for qualitative methods with purposive sampling technique. The population is Generation Z, with the age range being 17-23 years and over. Our respondent in an online survey is 72 respondents and took 6 of them for an interview. Results: We found that memes have positive and negative effects on the way Indonesian generation z communicates on the Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Line, and Telegram platforms used for various purposes such as conveying information, opinions, criticism, entertainment, and breaking the tense atmosphere. Recommendation: ...
A PROPOSAL FOR A METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DIGITAL MEME GENRE (Atena Editora), 2023
The general objective of this work is to carry out a methodological analysis of the digital meme genre, through the application of genre analysis categories elaborated by Motta-Roth (2011) and others, articulated to theoretical aspects formulated by Bakhtin (2011). In this sense, the analysis undertaken here starts from the production conditions of the genre, to then contemplate its compositional structure, its thematic content and its style. As a research problem, the following question was proposed: how is the digital meme genre characterized, in view of its specific characteristics, such as production conditions, compositional structure, thematic content and style? To find possible answers to this question, initially, a bibliographical survey was carried out regarding genres, genres and multimodality and digital genres, with the consultation of authors such as Bakhtin (2011), Motta-Roth (2011), Marcuschi (2005) and Rojo and Barbosa (2015), among others. Then, several websites and social networks were consulted for the selection of memes and subsequent composition of the corpus; finally, the theoretical categories were applied to analyze the selected corpus. Thus, in methodological terms, the research can be defined as qualitative, applied in nature, with bibliographic procedures and the objective of describing and analyzing the corpus composed of digital memes, with thematic content focused on female empowerment.
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