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  • Known in internet slang as shitposting, this style of posting involves people publishing low-quality images, videos or comments online.

    Text Memes Are Taking Over Instagram By 2021

  • Essentially, it was shitposting, or the act of publishing irrelevant or intentionally bad content.

    How millennials became cringe Rebecca Jennings 2022

  • To do so, I focus on one discursive technology in particular: shitposting, a specific kind of “meaningless” post (often in the form of a meme) that replicates the rhetorics of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook as a means to unsettle online discourses through lo-fi or unpolished media or texts.

    Shitposting as public pedagogy 2022

  • To do so, I focus on one discursive technology in particular: shitposting, a specific kind of “meaningless” post (often in the form of a meme) that replicates the rhetorics of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook as a means to unsettle online discourses through lo-fi or unpolished media or texts.

    Shitposting as public pedagogy 2022

  • While public discussions of shitposting often mischaracterize the term as just non-sensical or low-quality online content (Manavis, Citation2019), the discursive nature and practice of unsettlement embodied by shitposting proves equally as important.

    Shitposting as public pedagogy 2022

  • While public discussions of shitposting often mischaracterize the term as just non-sensical or low-quality online content (Manavis, Citation2019), the discursive nature and practice of unsettlement embodied by shitposting proves equally as important.

    Shitposting as public pedagogy Peter J. Woods 2025

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