‘Gone too soon’: zombie humour on social media as cultural critique of the British monarchy

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RP @icsjournal.bsky.social: #OutNow in #iCS Weidhase & Wilde examine zombie humour on social media following Prince Philip's death. Their paper explores how zombie metaphors on Twitter critique the monarchy & express resistance: www.tandfonline.com/doi…

#OutNow in #iCS Weidhase & Wilde examine zombie humour on social media following Prince Philip's death. Their paper explores how zombie metaphors on Twitter critique the monarchy & express resistance: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A must-read paper with a simply off-the-charts number of incredible phrases like "the royal zombie's villainy", and "monarchy as an outdated, presumably useless (yet undying) institution", or "a presumed racist rage is what reanimates Philip and is cons…

Keep forgetting to plug this! Open Access article exploring zombie #memes on social media as a cultural critique, considering how the monarchy embody the "living dead", and how counter cultures utilise humour and exist in online spaces as sites of resis…

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