1.0Twist Islamophobiahttps://twistislamophobia.org/enFundación de Cultura Islámicahttps://twistislamophobia.org/en/author/funci/Memes of Hate: Countering Cyber Islamophobia - Twist Islamophobiarich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="lhMdiIgw0B"><a href="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2019/07/23/memes-of-hate-countering-cyber-islamophobia/">Memes of Hate: Countering Cyber Islamophobia</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://twistislamophobia.org/en/2019/07/23/memes-of-hate-countering-cyber-islamophobia/embed/#?secret=lhMdiIgw0B" width="600" height="338" title="“Memes of Hate: Countering Cyber Islamophobia” — Twist Islamophobia" data-secret="lhMdiIgw0B" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://twistislamophobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Memes_2.jpg900551This article by Fair Observer, penned by the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, offers an interesting look on the role of memes, as a form of humor and an expression of the development of the digital field. Although they have inevitably been used by racist and bigots to depict Muslims and Islam, they show some interesting examples of counter-arguments and its use by Muslims to fight against Islamophobia. Memes have a frequent presence in our daily lives. They flood our timelines on different social media platforms, usually to provide us with a smile. Originally, the term “meme” was coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, to describe the flow and flux of culture. The meme was born as a cultural counterpoint to the gene, since, for Dawkins, biological evolution has been surpassed by cultural evolution as a key factor of human behavior. In Dawkins’s words, concepts so culturally broad like art, technology, language, art and religion are “memeplexes,” built from sets of several micro-level memes. Memes are multimodal artifacts that combine image with text, usually have an uncertain and popular origin, no attributed authorship and are perfect examples of participatory media since readers are ...