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spir-11357	Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan	THE MEMEIFICATION OF #SCHOOLSHOOTINGS IN THE U.S.: YOUTH, TIKTOK, AND PLAYFUL MEDIATED BODIES	2020.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1796	85	47	Focusing on the mediated memeification of school shootings, there exists an entire genre of #darkhumor videos on TikTok in which young people create and circulate irreverent humorous media texts as a response to the constant threat of – and perceived political inaction to - school shootings in the U.S.1 Through an analysis of teens’ #darkhumor school shooting videos on TikTok, this paper asks: what can we learn about how young people understand cultural trauma through an examination of their playful and memetic social media practices? Visual and Discursive Analysis There are at least three genres of #schoolshooting meme videos that I have identified which can be organized alongside two intersecting axes: the use of particular memetic themes (e.g. narratives, tropes, music, visuals) and their memetic function (e.g. parody, critique, coping).	cache/spir-11357.pdf	txt/spir-11357.txt