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spir-12257	Vickery, Jacqueline; Cardenas, Jen	“DEAR CONGRESS, JUST PLAY DEAD”: TIKTOK’S ABSURD GUIDE TO SURVIVING #LOCKDOWN	2021.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1505	85	46	Conclusion Through irreverent humor, TikTok creators build playful imitation publics to critique and cope with structural problems related to gun violence in the U.S. Imitation publics We approach school shootings as doubly memetic: both the actual phenomenon of school shootings and the media texts created about them function as repetitive, malleable, polysemic, and “contagious patterns of cultural information” that “shape the mindsets and significant forms of behaviors and actions of a social group” (Knobel and Lankshear, 2007, p. 199).	cache/spir-12257.pdf	txt/spir-12257.txt