My Background and Expertise and InterestĪs a reminder, I am approaching this as a communication scholar who studies stress, trauma, and conflict communication. Thanks for hanging in there with me-I think you’ll find it worth it. Specifically, I want to point out that while these #BernieMemes have a powerful place to play in this new era, they are not a magic ticket to heal all religio-political wounds-and explain why. In this analysis, I plan to talk about the very real benefits of this kind of serious play, and also its limits. So it’s excellent that we’ve had memes of Bernie Sanders sitting at the Biden/Harris Inauguration on a folding chair in his winter coat and mittens to help make social media safe for us again. I mean, let’s be clear: in the course of two weeks we progressed from armed insurrectionists white supremacists praying in the Capitol while causing violence and trauma to the blessedly peaceful inauguration day. This, the 51 st month of 2016, as one meme puts it, has been full of ALL THE FEELS for me and so many others in the US and around the world.
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