Identity-related issues in meme communication

Abstract Internet memes are an example of the trend of replicability and spread of discourses through the Net within today’s participatory culture. On paper, memes are instances of humorous discourse that abound on the internet, are replicated or altered, and then transmitted to other users. However, in this paper the focus is not on its humorous side, but on how every single stage of meme communication entails a greater or lesser impact on the user’s self-concept, self-awareness and overall identity. The paper addresses five stages of meme communication and possible ways in which these stages influence the user’s identity.

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Features of self-awareness of adolescents with socialized behavior disorder

Vestnik nevrologii, psihiatrii i nejrohirurgii (Bulletin of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery) ◽

10.33920/med-01-2006-05 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 50-55

Author(s):

Anna Afonina ◽

Aleksandr Kazyulin ◽

Boris Volodin ◽

Dmitry Petrov

Keyword(s):

Behavior Disorder ◽

Self Esteem ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Affective Component

This study presents the results of studying the features of self-consciousness of adolescents with socialized behavior disorder, such as self-attitude (affective component of the image of the Self), self-concept, self-esteem and the level of claims.

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Design and Validation of the Brief Self Online Scale (SO-8) in Early Adolescence: An Exploratory Study

The Journal of Early Adolescence ◽

10.1177/0272431620978539 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 027243162097853

Author(s):

J. Ortega-Barón ◽

J. M. Machimbarrena ◽

I. Montiel ◽

S. Buelga ◽

A. Basterra-González ◽

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Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

The Self ◽

Self Concept ◽

Problematic Internet Use ◽

The Internet ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Correlated Factors ◽

Age Range

For the Z-Generation, the Internet has become a very important experimentation laboratory for the discovery and validation of their identity. Despite the importance of the process of building the self in the adolescent, there are hardly any validated instruments that measure the self online. The aim of this research was to design and validate the Brief Self Online Scale (SO-8). A total of 843 students (384 boys, 45.6%), with an age range of 10 to 14 years participated. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the hypothesized model of two correlated factors (Online Self-Perception and Online Idealized Projection), previously obtained through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The reliability coefficients of Self Online dimensions were adequate. Indicators of convergent validity were obtained, finding significant correlations with self-concept, problematic Internet use, and online emotional intelligence. The SO-8 has adequate psychometric properties to be considered a reliable and valid tool to measure the construct of the Self Online in adolescents.

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The relationship between Internet use and self-concept clarity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Cyberpsychology Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace ◽

10.5817/cp2021-2-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Cristina Elena Petre

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Internet Use ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Self Concept ◽

The Internet ◽

Inclusion Criteria ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Cross Sectional Design ◽

The Relationship

There are three hypotheses regarding the relationship between Self-Concept Clarity (SCC) and Internet use. It was argued that Internet use: 1) decreases SCC, 2) increases SCC, 3) does not relate with SCC. The present study, in the form of a systematic and meta-analytic synthesis, aimed to explore: a) the extent empirical evidence can support each hypothesis; b) how Internet use-SCC relationship was addressed across studies; c) the intensity of the Internet use –SCC relationship; d) potential moderators. Twenty-one studies (N = 8,910) met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review (i.e., being quantitative, written in English, concerned with Internet use -SCC relationship) and 11 studies (N = 3,298) met the additional criteria for meta-analysis (i.e., being correlational, using self-evaluation instruments, quantifying general Internet use and including the information needed to calculate the meta-analysis specific indicators). Results emphasized that all three hypotheses are plausible, as distinct dimensions of Internet use related differently with SCC. However, the conclusions were limited by the extensive use of cross-sectional design. For general Internet use and SCC relationship the overall effect was -0.350, p < .01. Some moderators were significant: cultural background, Internet operationalization, age homogeneity, participants rewarding. This paper outlines the complexity of SCC – Internet relationship and underlines some of the gaps that should be further addressed. Implications and limits of the study (e.g., publication bias, excluded outcomes in the meta-analysis or possible omission of moderators) are discussed.

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CONFLICTOGENIC FACTORS IN VIRTUAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology ◽

10.35634/2412-9534-2019-29-5-886-895 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 886-895

Author(s):

N.I. Pushina ◽

N.I. Leonov ◽

N.V. Makhankova ◽

E.A. Shirokikh

Keyword(s):

Situational Factors ◽

The Internet ◽

Speech Communication ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Internet Communication ◽

Interethnic Relations ◽

The Public ◽

Speech Characteristics ◽

Ethical Norms ◽

Communication Conflict

This article aims to identify the causes of conflicts in communication upsetting the balance of interethnic relations, mutual understanding, interaction between representatives of different countries and peoples and to develop mechanisms for overcoming them in the discourse of political Internet, which occupies a special place in the Internet communication and enables politicians having access to the Internet to speak to the public. The article presents a typology of communicative failures, identifies what makes a communication conflict (situational factors, contextual factors; productive and receptive factors; ritualization of live speech communication, violation of ethical norms, leveling pragmatic speech characteristics, incorrect linear speech organization; reticence; shifting from one topic to another, etc.). Theoretical and methodological bases of the research are ontological and anthropocentric approaches: a person is recognized as a "measure of all things", he perceives the world through self-awareness in this world, and language, as a means of communication, acts as the main constitutive characteristics of thinking, speaking, and creating the reality person.

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Incremental Art Curriculum Model for the Mentally Retarded

Council review ◽

10.1177/001440297203900302 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 193-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jessie Lovano-Kerr ◽

Steven Savage

Keyword(s):

Visual Analysis ◽

Mentally Retarded ◽

Research Literature ◽

Self Concept ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Perceptual Discrimination ◽

Art Curriculum ◽

Curriculum Model ◽

Art Program ◽

Illustrative Material

This article reviews the relative position of art in special education curriculums, summarizes existent research literature related to art and the mentally retarded, and presents the beginnings of a structured, sequential, behaviorally based art program for educable retarded children. The curriculum model proposed includes a method of assessing the individual's increment of learning in the areas of visual analysis, perceptual discrimination, self awareness, and self concept. Brief descriptions of three introductory lesson plans and an abbreviated synopsis of activities from the unit on self awareness and self concept are included as illustrative material.

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Internet memes as multilayered re-contextualization vehicles in lay-political online discourse

Internet Pragmatics ◽

10.1075/ip.00055.kir ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 283-320

Author(s):

Monika Kirner-Ludwig

Keyword(s):

Participatory Culture ◽

Reference Points ◽

The Internet ◽

Online Discourse ◽

Political Beliefs ◽

Specific Focus

Abstract It is well established that the internet meme has come to represent a highly creative discursive device used to “facilitate the […] communication of one’s own political beliefs, attitudes and orientations” (Ross and Rivers 2017: 1). Although internet memes and political internet memes in particular have been addressed to many communicative situations such as participatory culture (e.g., Jenkins 2006; Shifman 2014; Theocharis 2015), one aspect that has not been paid enough attention to concerns the forms in which users refer to individual political figures and events in political memes. This being said, the present paper focuses on referring strategies (see Kirner-Ludwig and Zimmermann 2015; Kirner-Ludwig 2020) as employed in political internet memes on Reddit, including direct and indirect quotes, citations and allusions. A specific focus is going to be on such political internet memes that employ pop cultural and telecinematic reference points and recontextualize them from their original into new target contexts (see Bublitz 2015; Gruber 2019). As shall be shown, practices such as combining constructed speech elements into recontextualized elements in political internet memes create multiple intertextual references that may enhance visibility, saliency and, thus, the ‘lifetime’ of a political meme.

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The Theory of Self-Identification and Categorical Research Method

Scientific Research and Development Socio-Humanitarian Research and Technology ◽

10.12737/article_5c8f49fbadbbc6.99681771 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 17-25

Author(s):

С. Попей-олл ◽

S. Popey-oll

Keyword(s):

Semantic Category ◽

Self Concept ◽

Self Organization ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Semantic Categories ◽

Complex Processes ◽

The Social ◽

Categorical Method ◽

Rapid Transformation ◽

Social Level

This article presents a categorical method for analyzing the complex processes of personal identity. Human experiences are a result of conscious generalizations that dominate culture and are fixed in semantic categories. The rapid transformation of society fragments a life into many identifying parameters. Therefore, «a self-concept» and a semantic category of being may not be consistent with each other. The harmonious level of self-organization is manifested in the sensory coherence of people: an intention and an expectation. And fragmentation is a chaos of self-awareness and loss of an emotional stability. In a complicating society, the identity of a person becomes multiple and ambiguous. These studies will determine not only the social level of human self-organization, but begin the search for a method to maintain them. The article attempts to consider a categorical method for analyzing the self-identification properties of a people.

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