A special project of the Internet Archive. ” (…) The GeoCities Animated Gif Search Engine was a special project of the Internet Archive done as part of our 20th Anniversary to highlight and celebrate fun aspects of the amazing history of the web as represented in the web archive and the Wayback Machine. GeoCities was … Continued
Piia Varis, Jan Blommaert, “Conviviality and collectives on social media: Virality, memes, and new social structures”, Multilingual Margins, 2015, vol. 2/1. PDF available Abstract: There is a long tradition in which ‘phatic’ forms of interaction are seen as (and characterized by) relatively low levels of ‘information’ and ‘meaning’. Yet, observations on social media interaction patterns … Continued
Anne Helmond, “A Historiography of the Hyperlink: Periodizing the Web Through the Changing Role of the Hyperlink“, in Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Web History, London, SAGE Publications, 2018, pp. 227–241. “In this chapter I provide a historiography of one of the core elements of the web, the hypertext link. I … Continued
A workshop with Michael Hollmann (Präsident des Bundesarchivs), Christian Henrich-Franke (Universität Siegen), Helmuth Trischler (Leitung Bereich Forschung Deutsches Museum München), Matthias Röhr (Universität Siegen), Sebastian Gießmann (Moderation, Universität Siegen), Axel Volmar (Universität Siegen), Andrea Ploder (Universität Konstanz), Valérie Schafer (Universität Luxemburg).
Bai Q, Dan Q, Mu Z and Yang M, “A Systematic Review of Emoji: Current Research and Future Perspectives“, Front. Psychol., 2019, 10:2221. Abstract : A growing body of research explores emoji, which are visual symbols in computer mediated communication (CMC). In the 20 years since the first set of emoji was released, research on it has … Continued
Sho Tsugawa, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, “On the relation between Message Sentiment and its virality on Social Media, Social Network Analysis and Mining, 7, 1, 2017. [PDF] nii.ac.jp Abstract: We investigate the relation between the sentiment of a message on social media and its virality, defined as the volume and speed of message diffusion. We analyze 4.1 mil- … Continued