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Volume 43, 2021 - Issue 1-2: Special Issue: Leisure in the Time of Covid-19; Guest Editors: Brett Lashua, Corey W. Johnson, and Diana C. Parry
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What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories

Shana MacDonaldCommunication Arts, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 143-151 | Received 23 Apr 2020, Accepted 04 May 2020, Published online: 24 Jun 2020

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