


Still, as Katherine Marsh warns, learning to parse the meaning of text shouldn’t come at the expense of coming to love literature. Teaching that skill to the next generation may start in the classroom. The information we consume nonstop online, in the news, and during conversation requires an analytical eye. Human beings all have this impulse to develop narratives, but that “storification,” as Peter Brooks describes it, can flatten our understanding of the world and one another. Those communications built up complex conspiracies, such as the idea that the election was stolen. In Meme Wars, three researchers analyze how the spread of trollish phrases and iconography online led to the real-world attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In recent years, memes have emerged as a fragmented written and symbolic dialect of the internet they have also become calls to action. OL1933018W Page_number_confidence 79.17 Pages 74 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201008145424 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 286 Scandate 20201005120944 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780881039108 Tts_version 4.Language-no matter how we handle it, try to control it, or share it-is powerful. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:05:30 Associated-names Thomas, Barbara Siebel, illustrator Siebel, Fritz, illustrator Boxid IA1961401 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
