Weaponizing memes: The journalistic mediation of visual politicization

C Peters, S Allan - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article develops the concept of “mimetic weaponization” for theory-building. Memes
recurrently serve as identificatory markers of affiliation across social media platforms, with …

Tweets That Matter: Reconsidering Journalistic Sourcing and Framing Processes in the Context of the# Grexit Debate

A Kollias, F Kountouri - Journalism and Media, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study explores the news media Twitter messaging on the issue of Grexit, as an
exemplary case of transmediatisation of problems in highly polarized contexts. Our analysis …

[PDF][PDF] DIGITAL JOURNALISM2021, AHEAD-OF-PRINT, 1-13

C Peters, S Allan - core.ac.uk
This article develops the concept of 'mimetic weaponization'for theory-building. Memes
recurrently serve as identificatory markers of affiliation across social media platforms, with …

[PDF][PDF] Anti-media discourse, partisanship, and violence against journalists: Evidence from Chávez's Venezuela

K Mazzaro - cfom.org.uk
Can political leaders' anti-media rhetoric encourage violence against journalists and
undermine media freedom in democracies? While there is evidence that anti-media public …