With horse race coverage of the election fixed on a dead heat between the Liberal and Conservative parties, partisan Facebook memes now try to persuade voters on the best way to cast their ballot when it seems no party will win a majority. Though not … [Continue reading]
Lack of Platform and “Carbon Hypocrisy”: Climate Change Memes in the Canadian Federal Election
Key Points Climate change is a divisive issue in the Canadian meme space.Conservative memes tend to dismiss current policy responses to climate change, or frame liberal campaigning practices as hypocritical.Liberal memes point out conservative … [Continue reading]
“I do not know how my email address ended up on their list” – Canadian complaints about election advertising
Key findings: 53% of analysed complaints by voters to Elections Canada in 2015 related to unsolicited contact by political parties without an opt-out possibility (139 out of a sample total of 264)Other types of complaints ranked much lower: … [Continue reading]
Memes after Trudeau’s Brownface Incident
Highlights Internet users were quick to ‘meme’ last week’s scandalous images of Trudeau dressed in ‘brownface’ and ‘blackface’. Memes differed by the political allegiance of those who shared them, illustrating how party supporters make memes to … [Continue reading]
New project: The Great Canadian Encyclopedia of Political Memes
While Maclean’s magazine aspires to entertain its readers, it certainly didn’t expect its 7 November 2018 cover to be quite so entertaining. The cover labelled a photo of five Conservative leaders as “The Resistance” – a reference to anti-Trump … [Continue reading]
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