I have stumbled into memes as one fruitful teaching tool for helping students to uncover the ways mass media shapes how we view ourselves, others, and the world around us. A Google search for ...

Its central thesis was that U.S. mass media “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces ...

with himself, followed by a litany of toxic in-jokes meant to confuse the media and those less savvy ... hate crimes have become a message board meme of sorts. And like any online meme, the ...