Abstracts
Résumé
Cet article met en lumière les motivations et les pratiques de gestion des responsables de pages de mèmes politiques. À partir de neuf entretiens semi-dirigés, nous avons étudié ce qui pousse ces responsables à s’exprimer politiquement par le mème ainsi que l’impact des rétroactions de leurs publics sur leur processus de création. Nos résultats montrent qu’ils sont motivés par un double désir d’expression politique et humoristique et que certains espèrent créer du changement politique par leurs mèmes. Les rétroactions de leur public ont cependant peu d’effet sur les mèmes qu’ils publient, contrairement aux règles de la plateforme sur laquelle ils partagent leurs créations.
Mots-clés :
- mèmes,
- mèmes politiques,
- culture participative,
- microcélébrité
Abstract
This article sheds light on the motivations and management practices of those responsible for political meme pages. Based on nine semi-structured interviews, we studied what drives these managers to express themselves politically through memes, as well as the impact of feedback from their audiences on their creative process. Our results show that they are motivated by a dual desire for political and humorous expression, and that some of them hope to create political change through their memes. However, feedback from their audience has little impact on the memes they publish, unlike the rules of the platform on which they share their creations.
Keywords:
- memes,
- political memes,
- participatory culture,
- microcelebrity
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