New pub­lic­a­tion: Mak­ing sense of memes: how to study dis­trib­uted know­ledge as lay eco­nom­ics

'Making sense of memes: how to study distributed knowledge as lay economics' - Using natural language processing together with qualitative analysis, the paper re-conceptualizing internet memes as sites of distributed, non-elite knowledge production and dissemination. Using a set of macroeconomic memes as a case, the paper demonstrates that memes provide access to lay reasoning about political and economic conditions – access that eludes approaches centered on elite ideas or on meso and micro level practices.