POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIA

The purpose of the article is to analyze the political media memes’ functioning, their effects and persuasion, to classify them and to describe their structure. In this study finding authors describe the actual persuasion of media memes in contemporary Russian society. Media memes have got a clear s...

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Main Authors: I S Kuznetsov, Ya V Soldatkina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2017-12-01
Series:RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/16753
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description The purpose of the article is to analyze the political media memes’ functioning, their effects and persuasion, to classify them and to describe their structure. In this study finding authors describe the actual persuasion of media memes in contemporary Russian society. Media memes have got a clear structure via they could spread in social media. This structure also allows to classify media memes for better understanding their functioning and general message, authors rank political media memes illustrating the ones of recent US presidential elections. These units’ successful using as a format of media effect and their replication in media can depend on our ways of persuasion, on neurological and psychological basis of information virality. In a nutshell, political media memes couldn’t be considered as humor units only, but also as a format of media impact, an effective tool of media discourse, propaganda and political agitation during election season.
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spelling doaj.art-84c6a8c8e4d74496ab43416573ece1152022-12-22T03:17:16ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-92472017-12-0122233333910.22363/2312-9220-2017-22-2-333-33915507POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIAI S Kuznetsov0Ya V Soldatkina1<p>Московский педагогический государственный университет</p><p>Московский педагогический государственный университет</p>The purpose of the article is to analyze the political media memes’ functioning, their effects and persuasion, to classify them and to describe their structure. In this study finding authors describe the actual persuasion of media memes in contemporary Russian society. Media memes have got a clear structure via they could spread in social media. This structure also allows to classify media memes for better understanding their functioning and general message, authors rank political media memes illustrating the ones of recent US presidential elections. These units’ successful using as a format of media effect and their replication in media can depend on our ways of persuasion, on neurological and psychological basis of information virality. In a nutshell, political media memes couldn’t be considered as humor units only, but also as a format of media impact, an effective tool of media discourse, propaganda and political agitation during election season.http://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/16753медиамемсоциальные медиаполитический дискурсвиральная инфор-мациявоздействие медиа
spellingShingle I S Kuznetsov
Ya V Soldatkina
POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIA
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
медиамем
социальные медиа
политический дискурс
виральная инфор-мация
воздействие медиа
title POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIA
title_full POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIA
title_fullStr POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIA
title_full_unstemmed POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIA
title_short POLITICAL MEDIA MEMES’ PERSUASION AND FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL MEDIA
title_sort political media memes persuasion and functioning in social media
topic медиамем
социальные медиа
политический дискурс
виральная инфор-мация
воздействие медиа
url http://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/16753
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