Lauren Michele Jackson

Graduate StudentUniversity of Chicago

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Meme merge

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Lauren Michele Jackson University of Chicago

September 05, 2016
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Meme merge memes internet culture blackness black culture Curator's Note I am working with the assumption that memes not only originate often from Black online communities and borrow heavily from Black lexicon, but are themselves embedded with a Blac ...

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Re: Memes as Subversion?

Yes! (But also...)

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Lauren Michele Jackson University of Chicago

Monday, September 12, 2016 — 1:15 pm
My love for memes spurs me into an immediate, Yes! Memes can change the world. However, I think it's worth allowing some wiggle room between meme creation and intentionality; or also, I don't believe your last two questions necessarily need be e ...