Comic Books, Memes, and Digital Folk Culture
Wonder Woman's Secret History
Ropes and bondage as imagery for suffrage/feminism movements
Memes and Digital Humanities
Memes (+ Twitter) as Engagement
Memes as Self-Expression/ Community Building
Social Media as Activism
From Moya Bailey, "#transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics," DHQ, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/2/000209/000209.html.
Memes as Digital Folk Culture
Library of Congress Web Cultures Archive:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/web-cultures-web-archive/about-this-collection/
Know Your Meme:
Memes as Historical Argument
Extra Credit!
Make a meme (or a gif, or a comic strip) using the tools listed in your syllabus. It must:
- Utilize content from the LOC archives (public domain only!).
- Make some kind of argument/point about the history of the 1930s.
Submit your meme and response to in a private message by next Wednesday at noon to receive an extra credit point.