Humour generation and multimodal framing of political actor in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaign memes
Internet memes significantly constitute an outlet for extensive popular political participation in election contexts. They instantiate humour and represent political candidates so as to affect voters’ behaviour. Few studies on memes in political context exist (Shifman et al. 2007; Chen 2013; Tay 201...
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| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2018-12-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/324 |