Memetic Social Resilience? : Analysing Memes about Political Violence in Present-Day Belfast, Northern Ireland
(2024) In Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics 9. p.173-188- Abstract
- This study is concerned with how contemporary Belfast riots are represented in digital culture, with a specific focus on how social resilience is discursively cultivated (or hindered) through memes about said political violence.While a substantial amount has already been written about everyday practices in post-conflict Belfast, less is known about how digital narratives represent and make sense of the recent outbursts of sectarian violence there, and what the implications of these narratives are for the discursive cultivation of social resilience in the city. This is problematic as it is increasingly acknowledged by social resilience scholars that digital practices may be both a driver of disinformation and polarisation, as well as a tool... (More)
- This study is concerned with how contemporary Belfast riots are represented in digital culture, with a specific focus on how social resilience is discursively cultivated (or hindered) through memes about said political violence.While a substantial amount has already been written about everyday practices in post-conflict Belfast, less is known about how digital narratives represent and make sense of the recent outbursts of sectarian violence there, and what the implications of these narratives are for the discursive cultivation of social resilience in the city. This is problematic as it is increasingly acknowledged by social resilience scholars that digital practices may be both a driver of disinformation and polarisation, as well as a tool for building more socially resilient societies. Furthermore, given that memes are one of the dominant digital communication practices of the day it is urgent that we explore social resilience from this analytical perspective. The findings demonstrate that memes about political violence maybe both destructive and productive of the discursive cultivation of social resilience in Belfast. Keywords: memes, social resilience, riots, political violence, Belfast (Less)
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- Lundqvist, Martin LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-08
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- memes, political violence, Belfast, riots, social resilience
- host publication
- Online Virality : Spread and Influence - Spread and Influence
- series title
- Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics
- editor
- Schafer, Valérie and Pailler, Fred
- volume
- 9
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- De Gruyter Oldenbourg
- ISSN
- 2629-4540
- 2629-4559
- DOI
- 10.1515/9783111311371-009
- project
- Crisis Inequalities and Social Resilience (CISR)
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 7643667b-27e3-40d6-8ce7-7de9a0218057
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