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Effects and perception of multimodal recontextualization in political Internet memes. Evidence from two online experiments in Austria
Bülow, Lars & Johann, Michael Abstract Internet memes are an integral part of social media communication and a popular genre for humorous engagement in online political discourses. A meme is a collective of multimodal signs that refer to each other through shared formal, content-related, and/or stance-related characteristics and can be recontextualized on different levels: (1) language, (2) mode of presentation, and (3) humor. In this paper, we examine the perceptions and effects of recontextualization in...
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