IRON-Meme: A Benchmark for Structured Understanding of Identities and Roles in Online Meme Narratives
arXiv:2610.33097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As polarization grows on social media, understanding how political memes shape online narratives has become increasingly important. Previous research has relied on either qualitative frameworks that are hard to scale or computational methods that lack theoretical grounding. Both approaches treat narrative categories in isolation and focus exclusively on moral portrayals of identity. To address these limitations, we introduce a framework grounded i…