Memes can make you laugh, fill you with outrage, or make you feel pride. They repackage shared cultural knowledge to activate existing schemas in surprising, entertaining, or outrageous ways. They are ...

The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious. There were jokes about conscription. Captions about getting drafted, ...

The war on Iran is the first major conflict where the propaganda battle might be won or lost in memes. Pro-Iran accounts have unleashed viral videos in recent days mocking President Trump, casting him ...