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ABSTRACT THE AFFECT AND EFFECT OF INTERNET MEMES: ASSESSING PERCEPTIONS AND INFLUENCE OF ONLINE USER-GENERATED POLITICAL DISCOURSE AS MEDIA In our modern media environment characterized by participatory media culture, political internet memes have become a tool for citizens seeking to participate actively and discursively in a digital public sphere. Although memes have been examined as visual rhetoric and discursive participation, such political memes’ effects on viewers are unclear. This study responds to calls for research into effects of internet memes. Specifically, this work represents early, foundational research to quantitatively establish some media effects of internet memes as a form of political, user-generated media. This study focuses on memes’ influence on affect, as well as perceptions of internet memes’ persuasiveness to look for evidence of motivated reasoning in consuming political memes. To establish effects of viewing political memes, an online, post-test only, qu...

There has been tremendous growth in the use of the mobile phones in India. It is reported that the India’s telecommunication market is the second largest in the world. The mobile phones are available to the people right from the age of 12 years. The mobile phone technology has brought the world closer. It provided great convenience in communication among people by way of either calling or texting. Now, the mobile phones are coming up with variety of features like internet access, sending e-mails, games, access to social networking sites like face-book, listening to music, playing radio, reading books, dictionary and so on. The mobile phones are also used to overcome the feeling of loneliness. The majority of the users are in the age group of 15 to 25 years. The contacts are established instantly with the help of mobile phones which was not possible earlier. However, though the mobile phone provided many advantages, it has also caused some problems also. Some people are using the mobile...

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 Today’s youth is very advance, be it studies, clothes, culture or RELIGION. Religion is something that we can’t mess with. There are different religions, beliefs, rituals and cultures and then there are people who neglect them all and believe that there is no God, there is no creator of this world. It’s easy to say that we don’t believe in god, but can you answer me why you don’t believe in God? As easy it sounds, we all get confused. “The higher power is just given different names” this is something people like to go with to avoid religious fights, especially today’s youth, some believe that god lives within us, praying is not important, what’s important is that we do good in this world, others don’t like restrictions, they think its conservative and narrow, we call them atheists, the ones who doesn’t believe in God. We like things easy, we like going by our rules, making our own decisions, not caring what will be the consequences and that leads us to believing less in religio...

 Women are like roses, beautiful to see but everyone thinks twice before touching them. In today’s world, feminism and liberalism has taken over the world and minds of people. Rights and equality is something that is promised by every country. Our country have its own thoughts about women and equality. It’s not that they don’t promise women equality, they just lack in fulfilling it. Pakistani women face a lot of judgment be it on clothes, how they walk, they way they talk, the way they live, if they sign up for divorce and if they are occupied in a occupation, taboo for our beloved country. Facing these problems is not a problem but making people realize that the problem is actually not a problem is the actual problem. We all know how actresses in our country are judged, how they are called names and how marny people disrespect them just because they are actresses and models. Media is still a no in many households. It’s been called the occupation of compromises. Men somehow ge...