On the Language of Internet Memes

an arts-based educational research dissertation in arts & visual culture education
February 11, 2014

Poe[MEME]s

  • Target audience was high-school students up to 18 years-old, the same audience that TYPS traditionally reaches out to.

  • Ten participants consented to be part of the study, but only two were able to attend all three sessions. Nonetheless all ten generated data to be analyzed.

  • Participants were guided through explorations into the language of internet memes to incorporate visual, succinct and remixed digital content into their already developed poetic vocabulary.

  • Ran from July 18th to the 20th, 2013.

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February 11, 2014

Studio Meme

  • Held in the city of Tubac, AZ as part of Tubac’s Center of the Arts Summer Art Program, running from June 11 to July 3rd, 2013.

  • Participants from 6 to 14 years of age were led in the production of creative reflections that employed the language of internet memes in order to facilitate the acquisitions of the literacy skills required to engage actively within the internet’s visual culture.

  • Participants were grouped together by age range–6-7 year olds, 8-10 year olds, 11 and older (these groupings were determined by the education coordinator at Tubac Center of the Arts).

  • Three distinct curricula, three different case studies, each designed to address the skills and interests of the different age groups.

  • Each curriculum was deployed with about fifteen learners at a time but data was collected only the participants that consented to be part of the study, 27 in total.

  • Since the program ran for four weeks, but learners were be divided in three age groups, the oldest learners took part in a second, more advanced lesson-plan.
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