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The diploma thesis deals with internet memes and their culture. It presents and elaborate five logics of memes, which are reappropriation, multimodality, collectivism, resonance and spread. Memes appropriate existing media content, they "poach" both meaning and expression material and use it for new bricolages. The created meaning is therefore intertextual, and the thesis applies older theories of literary intertextuality on the subject of memes. The form of memes is usually multimodal, they combine modes of picture and text or video and music. The thesis describes stable designs of text, picture and video memes. Collectivism of meme culture is manifested in the existences of templates that initiate creation of individual instances. The knowledge of templates and their use can function as a kind of subcultural capital, that the users use to distance themselves from the mainstream. Resonance of memes is most often founded on humor and personal identification with the message. Memes do not necessarily communicate referential information; they have an affective meaning. Resonance and the participatory nature of memes help their spread, that is of the same value as creation and reception in the meme culture. Keywords internet memes, internet culture, multimodality, intertextuality, remix, participatory... |
