Religious Communications Blog

Kirsten Jacobson Kirsten,jacobson123@gmail.com Aguilar's work regarding genres and frames provide a very good frame through which to analyze my collection of memes, especially in regards to the role of authority. The genre that seems to be most prominent throughout my collection is that of religious figure memes. In a good majority of the memes in my collection, the person of focus in the image is either a monk dressed in traditional robes, or a depiction of Buddha himself. This image of a meditating male figure in robes is the overall genre that is presented through this collection of memes which would suggest, and is supported later by other frames and factors, that the memes present an overall positive and rather serious tone of peace and living a life of simplicity. To continue this blog post in regards of Aguilar, there is not only a clear genre throughout my meme collection, but also a very precise frame that seems to be presented repetitiously. That frame is that of pr

Kirsten Jacobson kirsten.jacobson123@gmail.com My research and reflection this week set in the perspective of Aguilars idea of both genres and frames, and finding meaning in the meme collection I have gathered so far through those terms. So far my collection of memes seems to have a strong overlying presence of the 'promoting' and 'playful' genre.  Almost all of the memes in my collection so far shed a positive view of the Buddhist community in the sense of having a promoting genre, in other words, these memes highlight the peaceful nature of the faith and those who identify within the faith by often depicting peaceful prayer and inner thought as making someone better or less hateful than people outside the community who participate in popular culture and violence. An example of this being one of my first memes I presented in which someone is meditating and the text overlay sarcastically states that other people are out there fighting wars while he is just pray