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Critical Memetic Literacies in English Education: How Do You Meme? book cover

1st Edition

Critical Memetic Literacies in English Education How Do You Meme?

Edited By Leah Panther, Darren Crovitz Copyright 2024
266 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited collection introduces English and literacy educators to the theoretical, research-based, and practical dimensions of using digital memetic texts—“memes”—in the classroom. Digital memetic texts come with new affordances, particularly as avenues for student creativity, voice, and advocacy. But these texts can also be put to manipulative, propagandistic, and nefarious purposes, posing... Read more

Editors

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

  1. Historical Damage, Modern Resonances, and Speculative Futures: English Education through Memes

    2. Part One. A Critical Memetic Curriculum

    Introduction: Rethinking Reading in a Critical Memetic Curriculum

  2. Making "Meme"ing: Questions for Critical Memetic Inquiry in High School English Classrooms

  3. Critical Media Analysis through Memes: Considerations and Applications for ELA Classrooms

  4. Mimetic Masculinities: Young Men of Color Analyze Anime Texts They Love

  5. The Meme Museum: Depictions and Analysis of COVID-19 with High School Students

    6. Part Two. Multimodal Composing with Memetic Texts

    Introduction: Deconstructing Purposes and Outcomes for Composing

  6. Socially Conscious Memetics Through a Culturally Digitized Pedagogy Lens

  7. Young People Reading and Writing the World through Meme Curation, Creation, and Critical Conversation

  8. Critical Memetic Analysis as Testimony: Restorying Memes as Healing Pedagogies

  9. What do you Meme? Using Memes for Argument Construction and Understanding

  10. We’re not Joking Anymore: Context, Audiences, and Memetics

    11. Part Three. Memetics and Language

    Introduction: Critiquing Linguicism with Critical Memetic Language Study

  11. Using Memes to Teach Linguistic Concepts in the ELA Classroom

  12. "I want to use my voice": Youth Literacies Disrupting Critical Memetic Analysis

    13. Part Four. Memes and Community Identities

    Introduction: Transgression and Control

  13. Framing Critical Memetic Literacy: Helping Students Grapple with Manipulative Memes

  14. Repurposing Problematic Memes in a Middle School Superhero Storytelling Project

  15. The Plagiarism Paradox: Memes, Originality, and Authorship

Key Terms

Index

Biography

Leah Panther is an assistant professor of Literacy Education at Mercer University, USA. She has been a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) since 2008 and is a former middle school teacher.

Darren Crovitz is a professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University, USA. He regularly presents at the NCTE conference and is a former high school teacher.

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