Memes and Social Justice Movements, with author An Xiao Mina

In this episode I speak with An Xiao Mina, author of Memes to Movements: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. We talk about the "chaos magic" created by meme wars, the need for CONTEXT creation online and how we have been making cat-GIFs for thousands of years.SHOW NOTES;Memes to Movemeents: How the Worlds Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power, By An Xiao Mina Richard Dawkins on the internet's hijacking of the word ‘meme' - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes Amanda Brennan - https://memelibrarian.com / Meme librarian is a real job — and it’s the best one on the Internet - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/21/tumblrs-meme-librarian-has-the-best-job-on-the-internet/ Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture , MIT Press - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/memes-digital-culture Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of Signs, By Mark Dery - https://www.markdery.com/books/culture-jamming-hacking-slashing-and-sniping-in-the-empire-of-signs-2/ Cave Paintings in Lascaux France - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux Hall of Cats cave paintings -images - https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/268738302751070366/ The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum - https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu Ancient Romans of Pompeii Loved Street Art Too, By Henri Neuendorf - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-romans-of-pompeii-loved-street-art-too-195643 Art as Activist: Revolutionary Posters from Central and Eastern Europe, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service - https://books.google.ca/books/about/Art_as_Activist.html?id=U_CCAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y China's river crab and grass-mud horse, Tactile Technology Collective - https://www.informationactivism.org/en/chinas-river-crab-and-grass-mud-horse.html Old Spice viral campaign - The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Your_Man_Could_Smell_Like K-pop fans are taking over 'White Lives Matter' and other anti-Black hashtags with memes and fancams of their favorite stars, By Alicia Lee, CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/kpop-bts-blackpink-fans-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html 30 Cutest Celebrity Cats - Emerald Catron Move over, A-listers: these celebrity cats are the real stars of the show. - https://bestlifeonline.com/cutest-celebrity-cats/ Coronavirus spawns viral TikTok dance about washing your hands, By Ben Cost - https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-spawns-viral-tiktok-dance-about-washing-your-hands/ Learning the Politics of “Digital Dissensus”, By An Xiao Mina - https://civichall.org/civicist/learning-the-politics-of-digital-dissensus/