This political season has been fraught with them: political memes. Â Pictures and videos combined with political messages to comment on and/or parody some aspect of the various campaigns engulfing various parts of the nation. Â From “binders full of women” to “the 47%”, people have been using social media and the phenomenon of Internet memes to express their political ideas, and perhaps indirectly their political allegiances. Â Some campaign experts and traditional media are starting to pay attention to these social media spreads as if they can learn to capture memes and co-opt the meme-makers and networks for their own ends.
But would that matter? Â What is the persuasive impact of political memes? Â I theorize an answer to these questions in my latest article for Clearance Bin Review.
But what say you, dear readers? Â My thoughts are outlined in my article at CBR, but they are in need of some empirical testing. Â Do you think political memes can have an impact? Â
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