digital methods for internet policy and politics
By Saskia Kowalchuk Lately, Canadian political memes on all sides have been focused on systemic racism. Since global protests supporting Black Lives Matter began, we observed a shift away from pandemic-related content to posts discussing systemic … [Continue reading]
Editorial Committee: Greg Elmer (Ryerson University), Ganaele Langlois (York University), Natalie Coulter (York University), Fenwick McKelvey (Concordia University) Deadline for abstract: September 15, 2020 Contact: … [Continue reading]
By Scott DeJong The tidal wave of information that came crashing alongside COVID-19 has become known as the ‘infodemic’ (Mina, 2018; United Nations, 2020; Zarocostas, 2020). One of the many concerns connected to the pandemic was the extensive … [Continue reading]
As the novel coronavirus became front and centre in people’s lives, it is no surprise that internet communities were impacted by it as well. Public groups, social media pages, and community spaces became flooded with discussions on the COVID-19 … [Continue reading]
This post discusses how we research memes. Studying memes has been an iterative process for our team. Since we started in September 2019, we have revisited our methodology numerous times to effectively develop a mixed methods model. Our work was … [Continue reading]
