Learning to See Memes as Characters in Stories

So in the Disinfolklore analytical method, we can talk about Alaska talks as a character in a story which provokes emotions, which has been provoking emotions in all of our minds. And in the Disinfolklore analytical method, we can perceive particular memes in our information space as characters. So this is in line with the idea that the news we are listening to is in many ways, including the structural, absolutely identical to folklore, to stories, books, novels, plays, music, in which we expect to encounter characters with personalities.

Source: Alaska trolls and how to use the ‘Timeline of Emotions’ model to parse Disinfolklore

The specific Way of Seeing that turns news into folklore: perceive memes as CHARACTERS with personalities. “Alaska Talks” is not a diplomatic event — it is a character in a story. This is the fundamental perceptual shift: news = folklore. Once you see it, you can apply all the analytical tools of literary and folkloric criticism to geopolitics.

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