Toward a Phenomenological Understanding of Internet-Mediated Meme-ing as a Lived Experience in Social Distancing via Autoethnography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2365731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ningfeng Zhang (0000-0001-6298-3784, Aalto University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-211 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08912416231216980 |
| OpenAlex | W4389789580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 43 |
As the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social distancing measures have rendered online communication a "new normal" in the post-pandemic era, the production and consumption of internet memes have also emerged as a significant communicative paradigm in this context. However, academic discourses on internet-mediated meme-ing have tended to focus on socially oriented macro-perspectives with a pursuit of positivistic objectivity, leaving the experiential and subjective aspects of "everyday internet-mediated meme-ing" vis-à-vis individuals in a lifeworld less explored. To address this gap, this study uses structured vignette analysis (SVA) coupled with individual-oriented phenomenological reflexivity to elaborate on how internet-mediated meme-ing reveals itself as a meaningful lived experience for a "solitary conscious self" in the overall context of social distancing. It seeks to demonstrate the phenomenological applicability of the SVA as an autoethnographic method as well as highlight the individual-oriented phenomenological substantiality of meme-ing that involves self-other relations in social distancing
Autoethnography · Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Distancing · Epistemology · Interpretative phenomenological analysis · Lifeworld · Phenomenology (philosophy · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Social distance · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Creating Autoethnographies
Introduction to Phenomenology
Cartesian Meditations
Phenomenological Psychology
For More than One Voice
WeChat
Pepper Spray Cop and the American Dream
Case Study Research
Formal and Transcendental Logic
Mimetic representations of the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction
Spreadable Media
Handbook of Autoethnography
Internet Memes and Society
Methodological Developments in Ethnography
Objectivity and Diversity
Sensuous Scholarship
‘Just wear their hate with pride’
Memes in the time of corona
Suicide-memes as exemplars of the everyday inauthentic relationship with death
Memes as speech acts
Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action
The Modes of Visual Rhetoric
Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy
The Use of Vignettes in Survey Research
Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
Being and Nothingness
Knowing the Unknown
Now I see it, now I don't
Multiple Reflections of Child Sex Abuse
Analytic Autoethnography
The Vignette Technique in Survey Research
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |