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DeCamp, Abbie Levesque.

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Queer Memes: Forms and Communities of Composition.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Queer Memes: Forms and Communities of Composition./
Author:	DeCamp, Abbie Levesque.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	172 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-03A.
Subject:	Rhetoric. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30634176
ISBN:	9798380198592

Queer Memes: Forms and Communities of Composition.
DeCamp, Abbie Levesque.

Queer Memes: Forms and Communities of Composition. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 172 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2023.

Community literacy and writing scholars have a long-held interest in writing that occurs outside of the classroom environment, especially writing by marginalized people. Following this tradition, my dissertation explores how queer community literacy is enacted on the internet via meme making and sharing. In my first chapter, I propose a robust framework for understanding both the form and social function of memes that accounts for the rapid transformations memes frequently undergo. Building on the work of other rhetoric and composition scholars, I define memes as a metageneric form, a way of conceptualizing genres. I also account in this framework for more unusual or emergent meme forms, such as tik tok audio memes and "shitpost" memes, by weaving together rhetorical frameworks with visual culture theory. Memes, instead of being purely a set of formal aspects, are a way of looking which manifests through humor in multiple modes of composition.In order to make these arguments, I conducted a qualitative study using both 32 community member interviews and memes themselves. This method allows for a tight focus on individual's idiosyncratic interactions with memes in their communities while also building a wider theory on the social functions of memes in queer communities. A queer methodological focus, utilizing the XM schema that I wrote, helps to form the basis for a vocabulary of analysis that unpacks the ways literacy, power, and marginalization are intertwined with meme making and consumption practices. This study focuses on meme creators and readers across a variety of platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. My three data-driven chapters focus on different aspects that arose across interviews. In my second chapter I unpack the ways queer people utilized memes to develop both their sense of identity and their sense of community. In my third chapter, I focus on the co-option of language via memes from black, often transgender, queer community members by white members and eventually the non-queer social sphere. Finally, I analyze the impact of platforms and communities on the aesthetic and rhetorical growth of memes as community literacy practices and look toward the future of memes as new platforms and modes of composition develop.

ISBN: 9798380198592Subjects--Topical Terms:

516647
Rhetoric.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Community literacy

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