Binders full of LOLitics: Political humour, internet memes, and play in the 2012 US Presidential Election (and beyond)
This paper examines the phenomenon of humorous Internet memes within the context of news and political culture, sometimes referred to as LOLitics. LOLitics are a category of digital texts created by ordinary individuals that, like most political humour, are usually responses to news events or gaffes...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2015-07-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/101 |