Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society Aug 2015 RSS Open Access

Picking Up the Fragments of the 2012 Election: Memes, Topoi, and Political Rhetoric

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“The fact that Internet memes significantly influenced the discourse around the 2012 presidential election suggests that rhetoricians should take memetics seriously.”

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Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
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2015-08-03
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