The warfare of funny pictures on internet

How many contents related to memetic warfare does Google.it return when a user searches “meme”?

39 75 83 99 EFFEQU “La guerra dei meme.Fenomenologia di uno scherzo infinito”,Alessandro Lolli, 2017 THE VERGE Twitter suspended Carpe Donktumprolific pro Trump meme creator. LINGUEE “Meme” external source. MEDIUM Il 2018? L’anno dei memeaccelerazionisti di sinistra. BUSINESS INSIDER Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as anemblem of hope. PAGE 01 PAGE 02 PAGE 03 PAGE 04 PAGE 05 PAGE 06 PAGE 07 PAGE 08 PAGE 09 PAGE 10 TOPICS INSIDE GOOGLE.IT“MEME” SEARCH RESULTS SOURCES CLUSTERS MEMETIC WARFAREContent that discussdirectly or refersto memetic warfare. MEMEContent that dealswith meme withoutcritical implications. > > GOOGLE.IT RESULTS ENCYCLOPEDIAPlatforms based on“wiki” style. VOCABULARYOnline translators and vocabularies. SOCIALSocial networks and image sharing platforms. SHOPPINGItems sold on an e-commerce website, or sales point. NEWSInformation sites on actuality and current events worldwide. BLOGPersonal web spaces, managed by grassroots. ARTICLEArticles written on gossip orculture sites. MEME ARCHIVEMeme generators and websites for meme classification. AMAZON “La guerra dei meme.Fenomenologia di uno scherzo infinito”,Alessandro Lolli, 2017 24 39 64 75 83 99

In the first section of the research, we aim to verify if memetic warfare is considered relevant compared to the overall debate on memes. It is significant to make this test on Google since it’s one of the most used means of information. It appears evident that the sources that talk about memetic warfare are diluted into a stream of contents on the mainstream face of memes.

Main Findings

An average user will hardly come in touch with the issue since the first result related to it appears on the third page.

example of finding


Nearly half of the results of the first search page are relative to the news.

example of finding


Among the six results that speak of memetic warfare, two of these refer to a book, which by the way is the same book.

example of finding

Protocol

example of protocol

Data sources

Date of retrieval

04/11/2019