International Journal of Research Studies in Education
2022 Volume 11 Number 15, 97-110
© The Author(s) / Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND
Pagsusuri sa daigdig ng twitter: Isyung politikal na
nakapaloob sa mga memes
Asis, Jona D.
Leyte Normal University, Philippines (asisjona659@gmail.com)
Cuayzon, Jobert B.
Leyte Normal University, Philippines (jobertcuayzon@gmail.com)
Mabini, Princess
Leyte Normal University, Philippines (mabiniprincess12@gmail.com)
Prongo, Stephen
Leyte Normal University, Philippines (prongotpain@gmail.com)
Acala, Michell T.
Leyte Normal University, Philippines (michellet_acala@lnu.edu.ph)
Received: 1 August 2022 Revised: 5 September 2022 Accepted: 4 October 2022
Available Online: 20 October 2022 DOI: 10.5861/ijrse.2022.b034
ISSN: 2243-7703
Online ISSN: 2243-7711
OPEN ACCESS
Abstract
Many people use different social media platforms such as twitter to express their views on
political issues. This study was developed with the aim of identifying the elements of political
memes on twitter based on form and type and to know the issues reflected in twitter memes.
The theoretical basis were Information Manipulation Theory and Functional Group
Communication Theory. This is a qualitative study which employed content analysis design.
The researchers collected trending political twitter memes based on the identified time frame
under the study. It emerged that the forms of political twitter memes are comic meme,
entertainment function meme and parody memes and the types consist support and criticism.
In addition, based on the collected political twitter memes the issues regarding human
behavior, diversity of political views, discrimination and person's ability to lead were
identified. Therefore, the researchers recommend to conduct further study on twitter in
relation to other elements found in internet memes and explore other related variables on
twitter memes other than political issues.
Keywords: Twitter, political issue, comic meme, entertainment function meme, parody meme