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Between Humour and Public Commentary: Digital Re-appropriation of the Soviet Propaganda Posters as Internet Memes
Journal of Creative Communications ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-23 , DOI: 10.1177/0973258619893780
Valeriya Kalkina 1
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Over the last two decades, Russian Internet accumulated a range of images originating from the Soviet epoch, including everything from official portraits of Soviet leaders to representations of Soviet greeting cards and postage stamps. While some of those digitised items remain intact, others become a part of different creative practices inherent to online environment, such as photo manipulating, remixing, recombining and merging with elements attributing to other historical or national contexts. The current article investigates one instance of creative re-appropriation of the Soviet visual legacy on the Internet: construction of digital memes from the former Soviet propaganda posters. Upon focusing on three iconic posters, namely Did you Volunteer? (1920), Do not Talk! (1941) and Motherland is Calling! (1941), this study examines how the propaganda images have been transformed by contemporary Russian users into ‘templates’ for meme-making. Furthermore, the article identifies two particular functions of memes based on the Soviet propaganda posters: first, as a form of a peculiar humour, known in Russian tradition as stiob and, second, as an instrument for voicing of public opinion, through which users comment on urgent political and social issues. The article concludes that the remakes of Soviet propaganda images do not fall within any hitherto discovered category of humorous, political or historical memes, and therefore, they should be considered as a separate case in contemporary production of memes.

中文翻译:

在幽默与公众评论之间:以数字方式重新使用苏联宣传海报作为网络模因

在过去的二十年中,俄罗斯互联网积累了一系列源自苏联时代的图像,包括从苏联领导人的肖像到苏联贺卡和邮票的代表等所有内容。尽管其中一些数字化项目保持完好无损,但其他数字化项目却成为在线环境所固有的不同创造性做法的一部分,例如照片处理,重新混合,重新组合以及与归因于其他历史或国家背景的元素合并。本文研究了在互联网上创造性地重新使用苏联视觉遗产的一种情况:从前苏联宣传海报上构建数字模因。着眼于三个标志性的海报,即“您是志愿者”吗?(1920),不要说话!(1941)祖国呼唤!(1941),这项研究探讨了宣传图像如何被当代俄罗斯用户转化为模因制作的“模板”。此外,本文根据苏联的宣传海报确定了模因的两个特殊功能:首先,它是一种特殊的幽默形式,在俄罗斯传统中被称为“ stiob”;其次,它是表达民意的工具,用户可以通过它发表评论在紧急的政治和社会问题上。文章的结论是,苏联宣传图像的重制不属于迄今为止发现的任何幽默,政治或历史模因的范畴,因此,应将它们视为当代模因制作中的一个单独案例。本文根据苏联的宣传海报确定了模因的两个特殊功能:首先,它是一种特殊的幽默形式,在俄罗斯传统中被称为“ stiob”;其次,它是表达民意的工具,用户可通过此工具评论紧急情况。政治和社会问题。文章的结论是,苏联宣传图像的重制不属于迄今为止发现的任何幽默,政治或历史模因的范畴,因此,应将它们视为当代模因制作中的一个单独案例。本文根据苏联的宣传海报确定了模因的两个特殊功能:首先,它是一种特殊的幽默形式,在俄罗斯传统中被称为“ stiob”;其次,它是表达民意的工具,用户可通过此工具评论紧急情况。政治和社会问题。文章的结论是,苏联宣传图像的重制不属于迄今为止发现的任何幽默,政治或历史模因的范畴,因此,应将它们视为当代模因制作中的一个单独案例。
更新日期:2020-02-23
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