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- Title
Texts (and Tweets) from Hillary: Meta-Meming and Postfeminist Political Culture.
- Authors
Anderson, Karrin Vasby; Sheeler, Kristina Horn
- Abstract
Candidate image is a hyperreal amalgamation of image fragments generated by the politician, her/his campaign communication, news framing, and political pop culture. In the Internet age, a politician's image can be shaped by non-elite discourses on sites such as Twitter and Tumblr. We develop a theory of the political 'meta-meme,' examining the 'Texts from Hillary' Tumblr meme as framed in popular media and redeployed by Hillary Clinton in her Twitter debut. The interplay between elite and quotidian discourses that comprise the 'Texts from Hillary' meme and the #tweetsfromhillary meta-meme illustrates how U. S. presidentiality is shaped by rhetorics of postfeminism.
- Subjects
CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, 1947-; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; TEXT messages; UNITED States presidential election, 2008; TWITTER (Web resource); TUMBLR (Web resource); POSTFEMINISM; WOMEN political candidates; COMPUTER network resources
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 2, p224
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/psq.12111