Critical Memetic Literacies in English Education

How Do You Meme?

Leah Panther, Darren Crovitz, Leah Panther, Darren Crovitz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000986327
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This edited collection introduces English and literacy educators to the theoretical, research-based, and practical dimensions of using digital memetic texts—"memes"—in the classroom. Digital memetic texts come with new affordances, particularly as avenues for student creativity, voice, and advocacy. But these texts can also be put to manipulative, propagandistic, and nefarious purposes, posing critical challenges to an informed, democratic citizenry. Grounded in multimodality and critical literacy, this book investigates the fascinating digital dimension of texts, audiences, and meaning, and considers how English educators might take up these conversations in practical ways with students. With authentic examples from teachers and students, this volume provides a road map to researchers and educators—both preservice and in-service—interested in critical and productive uses of these modern phenomena.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Editors
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Historical Damage, Modern Resonances, and Speculative Futures: English Education through Memes
• Part I A Critical Memetic Curriculum
• Introduction: Rethinking Reading in a Critical Memetic Curriculum
• Part II Multimodal Composing with Memetic Texts
• Introduction: Deconstructing Purposes and Outcomes for Composing
• Part III Memetics and Language
• Introduction: Critiquing Linguicism with Critical Memetic Language Study
• Part IV Memes and Community Identities
• Introduction: Transgression and Control
• Key Terms
• Index