Karen Nguyen
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ASA
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Prof.
Maira & Omar
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June 2017
Truth is a Virus – Andrew Boyd
The article defines the significance
of memes in politics. According to Boyd, memes include the historical category
of tools meant to communicate and motivate ideologies. The reading underlines how
a meme must be receptive and must coordinate with the current “theme” or
popular mode of communicating information. In this way, the memes of the past
can include the Declaration of Independence and campus raids of the 60’s
because written documents and targeting public spaces like universities,
respectively, were trending forms of voicing an ideology. Today, social media,
parodies, and public art like stickers and graffiti are all prevalent sources
of information. Thus, we see memes dominate these modes of communication. According
to the Boyd’s idea that these memes are ideological codes with viral shells
that ultimately expend some sort of message of opposition, memes construct
communities of resistance. With every re-Tweet of Trump’s duck face on an
actual duck or every cute laptop sticker that actually declares feminism, this
virus is injected into everyday acts of resistance.
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