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spir-11903	Drainville, Raymond Alderic	EX NUGIS SERIA: THE INTERNET MEME AS CONTEMPORARY EMBLEM	2021.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1312	89	51	THE INTERNET MEME AS CONTEMPORARY EMBLEM Author Name: Ray Drainville Author Institution: Stratford School of Interaction Design and Busines, University of Waterloo, Canada Extended studies of Internet memes situate them broadly under Dawkins’ (1976) conception of the meme as a “cultural unit” of communicative information (Shifman, 2014; Milner, 2016; Wiggins, 2019), typically reducing a meme’s visual aspect to a “visual ‘action verb’” (Milner, 2016:68). I argue that an important parallel for understanding contemporary memes has been neglected: emblematic imagery arising from the early publishing culture of the European Renaissance.	cache/spir-11903.pdf	txt/spir-11903.txt