Michael Stevenson and Anne Helmond, “Legacy systems: internet histories of the abandoned, discontinued and forgotten”, Internet Histories, 4:1, 1-5, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2020.1725854 Read more : – Introduction to the special issue in open access – Content of this special issue
Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder, Web as History, London, UCL Press, 2017. This volume argues that now is the time to question what we have learnt from the Web so far. The 12 chapters explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles – through histories of national web spaces and case studies of different … Continued
This book examines the usefulness and limits of DIY citizenship, exploring the diverse forms of political participation and “critical making” that have emerged in recent years. Matt Ratto, Megan Boler (ed.), DIY Citizenship, Critical Making and Social Media, Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 2014. See more
Jonah Berger and Katherine L. Milkman, “Social Transmission, Emotion, and the Virality of Online Content”, Marketing Science Institute Working Paper Series 2010 Report No. 10-114. Abstract: “(…) In this report, Jonah Berger and Katherine Milkman take a psychological approach to understanding diffusion. Using a unique dataset of all the New York Times articles published over a three-month … Continued
Milner, R (2012). The world made meme: discourse identity in participatory media. Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/10256 Google Scholar Abstract: This project explores internet memes as public discourse. ‘Meme’ is a term coined by biologist Richard Dawkins to describe the flow, flux, mutation, and evolution of culture, a cultural counter to the gene. But the … Continued
“How cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet. The advertising slogan of the social news site Reddit is “Come for the cats. Stay for the empathy.” Journalists and their readers seem to need no explanation for the line, “The internet is made of cats.” Everyone understands the joke, but few know how it started. A … Continued