İdil Galip

İdil Galip is a lecturer in new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam. Her work investigates the conditions of cultural production on digital platforms through ethnographic and theoretical interventions. She is particularly interested in exploring how internet memes are made, shared and monetised and wrote her PhD thesis on this topic. Her monograph based on this work and titled “Beyond Virality: The Art of Internet Memes” will be published by Intellect Books in 2024. She is the founder of Meme Studies Research Network, and the co-editor of the third volume of the Critical Meme Reader.