"It was funny at first" exploring tensions in human-animal relations through internet memes with university students. Issue 4 (3rd April 2023)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "It was funny at first" exploring tensions in human-animal relations through internet memes with university students. Issue 4 (3rd April 2023)
- Main Title:
- "It was funny at first" exploring tensions in human-animal relations through internet memes with university students
- Authors:
- Tammi, Tuure
Rautio, Pauliina - Abstract:
- Abstract: Because of their mostly upbeat everyday presence in most people's lives globally, Internet memes have gained attention as tools in spreading information and enacting attitudinal change in the face of environmental troubles. The reappropriation of memes for classroom purposes is not straightforward, however. We focus our exploration of Internet memes in environmental education to questions of human-animal relations. The context is a higher education course on multispecies childhood studies. The question we pose is whether and how Internet memes can bring forth tensions in human-animal relations. First we review literature mapping what Internet memes are and how they relate to humour and laughter. Then we explore what memes (can) do by creating Internet memes with university students of education. And finally we turn to affect theory and suggest that the potential for environmental education that Internet memes hold, may lie in understanding and using them as feral pedagogical creatures.
- Is Part Of:
- Environmental education research. Volume 29:Issue 4(2023)
- Journal:
- Environmental education research
- Issue:
- Volume 29:Issue 4(2023)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 29, Issue 4 (2023)
- Year:
- 2023
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2023-0029-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 539
- Page End:
- 551
- Publication Date:
- 2023-04-03
- Subjects:
- Internet memes -- laughter -- humour -- human-animal relations -- higher education
Environmental education -- Research -- Periodicals
333.7207 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ceer20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13504622.2022.2073972 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1350-4622
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