Category: Memes
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“It’s Just a Joke”: The Dark Side & Lore of Prejudice.
Knock-Knock… Joke cycles. We’ve all come across or taken part in them throughout our lives. There are chicken jokes, knock-knock jokes and lightbulb jokes. Remember those awful dead baby jokes? The jokes that circulated when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff in 1986? Not long after email became a ‘thing’, it took just hours (some…
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Australia Votes: A Long Campaign in Memes. Dank memes, #FakeTradie and what we’ve been sharing. #MemeWars #MemeElection
Do you remember where you were when the upcoming Federal Election was announced? Me neither, though I do recall feeling queasy, vowing to stop watching the news and preparing for the inevitable onslaught of mind-numbing slogans, over-simplified arguments and social media stunts. Seventy-five days sentenced to political hell. Election campaigns are a bit like witnessing a nasty car…
A Hidden Culture 