Marc Richardson: Memes show communication's increasingly visual nature

Last weekend I was trawling the internet when I came across a headline that read: “The Best Memes From The Royal Wedding.” While memes are nothing new — they dominate the internet, after all — it struck me. There was the monarchy, seen as archaic by some but rooted in hundreds of years of history, juxtaposed with the meme, where longevity is measured in weeks, and which typifies how communication is changing.
Language, and communication more broadly, have been evolving si