Advanced search
Publication Cover
Information, Communication & Society Volume 23, 2020 - Issue 1
Submit an article Journal homepage
17,079
Views
14
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Turning a communist party leader into an internet meme: the political and apolitical aspects of China’s toad worship culture

Kecheng FangAnnenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 38-58 | Received 24 Mar 2017, Accepted 30 May 2018, Published online: 19 Jun 2018

Citations (14)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (5)

Ruichen Zhang & Bo Kang. (2022) From Propaganda to Memes: Resignification of Political Discourse Through Memes on the Chinese Internet. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 0:0, pages 1-20.
Read now
Asaf Nissenbaum & Limor Shifman. (2022) Laughing alone, together: local user-generated satirical responses to a global event. Information, Communication & Society 25:7, pages 924-941.
Read now
Sulafa Zidani. (2021) Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life. Information, Communication & Society 24:16, pages 2378-2402.
Read now
Hojeong Lee. (2021) Relentless villains or fervent netizens?: The alt-right community in Korea, Ilbe . Internet Histories 5:3-4, pages 268-286.
Read now
Altman Yuzhu Peng & Shuhan Chen. (2021) Traditional Chinese medicine works: a politicised scientific debate in the COVID-19 pandemic. Asian Journal of Communication 31:5, pages 421-435.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (9)

Yipeng Xi. (2023) Adaptive agency: the satire genre and the motives behind its use in the era of social media in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10:1.
Crossref
Rowan Tulloch. (2023) #BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, pages 135485652311761.
Crossref
Alvin Zhou & Sifan Xu. (2022) Computer mediation vs. dialogic communication: How media affordances affect organization-public relationship building. Public Relations Review 48:2, pages 102176.
Crossref
Ben Wasike. (2022) Memes, Memes, Everywhere, nor Any Meme to Trust: Examining the Credibility and Persuasiveness of COVID-19-Related Memes. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 27:2.
Crossref
Shen Yang & Fengshi Wu. (2022) From Online Mass Incidents to Defiant Enclaves: Political Dissent on China’s Internet. The China Journal 87, pages 20-39.
Crossref
Hui Zhao. (2021) Beyond culture: Advancing the understanding of political and technological contexts in crisis communication. International Communication Gazette 83:5, pages 517-537.
Crossref
Altman Yuzhu PengAltman Yuzhu Peng. 2020. A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere. A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere 125 131 .
Altman Yuzhu PengAltman Yuzhu Peng. 2020. A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere. A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere 105 123 .
Kirill Chmel, Nikita Savin & Michael X. Delli Carpini. (2018) Making Politics Attractive: Political Satire and Exposure to Political Information in New Media Environment in Russia. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.