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Wed May 7, 2014, 03:54 PM May 2014

A&M researchers now studying religion through funny Internet memes

By Heather Alexander | May 6, 2014 | Updated: May 7, 2014 9:29am

The battle of the religious memes rages strong on timelines and Twitter feeds every day, and now researchers at Texas A&M have studied them.

Classics like "1 John" over a picture of a toilet were featured in a research paper called "Reading Religion in Internet Memes," which found that it's quite a skill to put them together.

The witty photo-and-text combos have become a language in themselves, researchers said. It's something that could potentially have its own Rosetta Stone course to learn it, it seems.

"Memes require an interesting level of literacy," said Heidi Campbell, associate professor of communication at A&M. "You need to understand visual images, have basic digital literacy, have a fluency in memes culture so you understand how different memes work."

http://www.chron.com/news/article/A-M-researchers-now-studying-religion-through-5457717.php

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A&M researchers now studying religion through funny Internet memes (Original Post) rug May 2014 OP
Flipping through the slides is fun, though there cbayer May 2014 #1
Here's the journal article. rug May 2014 #2
SORRY JOSEPH AtheistCrusader May 2014 #3
There's a whole genre the study omitted. rug May 2014 #4

cbayer

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1. Flipping through the slides is fun, though there
Wed May 7, 2014, 03:59 PM
May 2014

are an inexplicably large number about a houston weather event towards the end.

I like this one:

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