Meme Studies Reading List

I became interested in studying memes and started collecting resources, like journal articles, around 2014-2015. I had looked all over for a “meme studies” reading list and couldn’t find one. I didn’t have high hopes either as meme studies wasn’t a ‘recognised’ cohesive academic field then (and I’m almost certain that it still isn’t today, although this may be up for debate!).

Having access to such a list would have been so helpful for me at the time, so as I was rearranging my Zotero libraries the other day (a deranged hobby of mine), I thought I would make one myself. So I’ve gathered as many of my resources as I could into this list here, it is far from a comprehensive list of all research about memes, it’s just a compilation of all of the ones that I have in my Zotero library.

This is why I’m looking for other people who’d be interested in editing, updating and expanding the list. I’m hoping that this can be a collaborative effort and blossom into other things. I was very much inspired by Zoe Glatt, who is a digital ethnographer and PhD researcher at LSE, and her work with the digital ethnography collective and reading lists. I’ve found their workshops and reading lists to be very helpful and recommend checking out their workshops.

You can access the list here, or at this link on Google docs.

For now, I’ve categorised the list by topic (these topics are subjective, tentative and very much open to change) and alphabetically.

It’d be amazing to find some co-editors, so if you’re interested in editing the document, please send me an email or DM me on twitter so I can provide you a Google docs editor link.

-Idil