Source?: Memes as Spiritual Expression in a Post-Truth Landscape
| dc.contributor.author | Hertrick, Bradlee T. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-18T14:51:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-18T14:51:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/15092 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the prevalence of spiritual content in internet memes despite decreasing religious affiliation in America. Part I traces the relevant histories that make memes an effective mode of expressing and negotiating existential concerns, including postmodernism, capitalist realism, Web 2.0, and American political and religious traditions. Then, a methodology based on teleology and affect (as opposed to etymology and origin) is implemented to analyze the primary case study: a meme format in which users provide sources that are intuitive and unprovable. Part II creates a typology of these sources and explores their implications. | |
| dc.subject | First Reader Jonah G. Westerman | |
| dc.subject | Masters Thesis | |
| dc.subject | Semester Spring 2024 | |
| dc.title | Source?: Memes as Spiritual Expression in a Post-Truth Landscape | |
| dc.type | Masters Thesis | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2024-07-18T14:51:31Z | |
| dc.description.institution | Purchase College SUNY | |
| dc.description.department | Art History | |
| dc.description.degreelevel | Master of Arts | |
| dc.description.advisor | Westerman, Jonah G. | |
| dc.date.semester | Spring 2024 | |
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