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InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Issue 34: \u201cInVisible Memes for Cultural Teens\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to\u00a0invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu<\/a>\u00a0by July 16, 2021. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.<\/p>\n

Creative\/Artistic Works<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to written materials,\u00a0InVisible Culture<\/em>\u00a0is accepting works in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. Please submit creative or artistic works along with an artist statement of no more than two pages to\u00a0invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu<\/a>. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to\u00a0http:\/\/ivc.lib.rochester.edu\/contribute<\/a>\u00a0or contact the same address.<\/p>\n

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For our 34th issue,\u00a0Invisible Culture<\/em>\u00a0seeks both scholarly and creative works that approach internet memes as aesthetic, cultural, and political objects of study. Memes have been discussed largely in their communicative and participatory capacities, particularly in the fields of communications, political science, and other social sciences. However, there are few examples of humanistic work approaching memes and memetics as world-building practices and as cultural objects that foreground meaningful sense-making. Since the last major journal issue devoted to the topic\u2014a 2014 special issue of The Journal of Visual Culture\u2014memes have moved from niche to mainstream, from diversion to discourse, from formally simplistic to kaleidoscopically complex.<\/p>\n

Memes draw endlessly from the ever-growing dustbin of popular visual culture, returning modified images that are, in turn, instantly modifiable. Memes are as much, if not more, part of most people\u2019s daily cultural exposure as television, film, or radio. Savvy creators of \u201clegacy\u201d media anticipate memification (one need only think of Lil Nas X sliding down the stripper pole to Hell) and marketing professionals \u201cin on the joke\u201d leverage the authorless form for free advertising.<\/p>\n

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The bulk of anglophone meme research since 2015 has focused on the role of memes in the spread of extremist ideologies as a means of \u201c[weaponizing] irony to attract and radicalize potential supporters, challenge progressive ideologies and institutions, redpill normies, and create a toxic counterpublic\u201d (Greene 2019)\u00a0 This attention is both necessary and appropriate. However, we hope to address memetics more broadly and to emphasize areas that haven\u2019t received the same attention. Memes are hardly unique to any one age group, race, class, or indeed any region of the world; nor do they exclusively reside in the domain of humor.<\/p>\n

Memes spread and develop online and can never be fully untethered from the exigencies of platform, algorithm, location, and law. Yet vernacular meme cultures are as varied as the panoply of human experience. Memes move across and within ethnic and national identifications, expressions of gender and sexuality, political ideology, and language family. In this issue we seek work that speaks to that capacious view of memes, from part to elusive whole, whether focusing on the deeply contextual particularities of a specific meme or community, the subversive or revolutionary potential of particular imagery, discussing the practice of meme artist or reckoning with memetics as a worldwide phenomenon. We hope for submissions of scholarly and creative work across disciplines, methodologies, communities, and positionalities.<\/p>\n

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Contributions to this issue may address (but are by no means limited to) the following topics and themes:<\/p>\n