The (un)Funny side of Memes : reproduction of symbolic violence against women through Memes

This study seeks to understand the portrayal of women and racial minorities in memes and uncover if such portrayals reproduces symbolic violence against women. By using content analysis to analyze 248 memes and Stuart Hall encoding/decoding model to code 22 comments, the findings revealed sexism and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ang, James
Other Authors: Paul Kohl
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66147