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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."
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