- Addressed Issues
- Involved Individuals
- Emotion

Cross-Cultural Themes Arising from COVID-19 Memes: Results

Research has investigated memes as information visualizations in different cultural setting. For instance, researchers have compared COVID-19 memes in Chinese and English.

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Research has investigated memes created by young people as a method of examining information/data visualization during the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, memes are a way through which information can be shared, communicate ideas, and allow for public conversation. 

Memes and the Visualization of Information

Ge-Stadnyk, J., & Sa, L. (2022, July). Conducting Cross-Cultural Research on COVID-19 Memes. In Proceedings of the The Fifth International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media (pp. 40-46).

Conducting Cross-Cultural Research on COVID-19 Memes

- Providing an interpretation/emotion
- Clear indicator
- Time-dependent visualizations
- Creation of visual puns
- Physical representation of data
- Recontextualization of data visualizations

Themes Arising from COVID-19 Meme Information Visualization

Cross-Cultural Themes Arising from COVID-19 Memes (Chinese and English)

Memes have been used, as research suggests, during and slightly before the pandemic to share information and sentiments of different groups. For example, Gen Xers have expressed that other generations may not be taking measures seriously. Similarly, users have expressed dissatisfaction with work expectations during the pandemic.

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