Limor Shifman
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Limor Shifman is a professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is a former research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and a former visiting scholar at the USC Annenberg school of Communication and Journalism. [1]
Shifman produced foundational works within the memeological tradition of meme studies, and was instrumental in reintroducing memetics into modern cybercultural research.
Partial Bibliography
- The cultural logic of photo-based meme genres
- An anatomy of a YouTube meme
- “It gets better”: Internet memes and the construction of collective identity
- Internet memes as contested cultural capital: The case of 4chan's/b/board
- Assessing global diffusion with Web memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke
- Making sense? The structure and meanings of digital memetic nonsense
- Talking it personally: Features of successful political posts on Facebook
- Memes in a digital world: Reconciling with a conceptual troublemaker
- Meme templates as expressive repertoires in a globalizing world: A cross-linguistic study
- Humor in the age of digital reproduction: Continuity and change in internet-based comic texts
- Internet jokes: The secret agents of globalization?
- Testimonial rallies and the construction of memetic authenticity
- Digital political infographics: A rhetorical palette of an emergent genre
- Between feminism and fun(ny)mism: Analysing gender in popular internet humour
- Families and networks of internet memes: The relationship between cohesiveness, uniqueness, and quiddity concreteness
- Only joking? Online humour in the 2005 UK general election
- When ethnic humor goes digital
- Beyond neutrality: Conceptualizing platform values
- Keeping the elite powerless: Fan-producer relations in the “Nu Who”(and new YOU) era