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Daniel Maree, “Million Hoodies and the Power of Human Connection,” filmed April 4, 2013 at TEDxFoggyBottom, video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPD-vwBidXU.
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Daniel Maree, “Million Hoodies and the Power of Human Connection,” filmed April 4, 2013 at TEDxFoggyBottom, video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPD-vwBidXU.
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Kitty Robson, “Inside The Exhibition Celebrating Meme Culture,” Hunger online, last modified July 22, 2016, https://www.hungertv.com/feature/inside-the-exhibition-celebrating-meme-culture/
Mo Johnson, “By Any Memes Necessary: This Art Exhibit Takes Feminist Internet Culture from URL to IRL,” BUSTonline, no date, https://bust.com/arts/19045-meme-art-exhibit.html.
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An Xiao Mina, Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power(Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2019) 12.
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