game of definitions – Cyber Means Pilot

Shane Tilton

2025-04-25

Wiggins’ Definition: Memes as Ideological Practice

Shifting towards the end of my Meme Life tour that has taken over the last three years of my academic career and into promoting the Digital Culture in the Platform Era book starting this summer means that I should wrap up my “Defining Memes” series that supplemented the definitions for...

Defining Memes

Shane Tilton

2024-05-29

Mina’s Definition: Memes as a Guideposts of Social Movements

A regret of mine when writing “Meme Life” two years ago was not finding the work of An Xiao Mina, specifically her book “Memes to Movement: How the World’s Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power.” This book was meaningful as it provided a model for using memes...