Temporalities of the Web
Niels Brügger, “A brief Outline of Temporalities of the Web Online and in Web Archives”, in Valérie Schafer (ed.), Temps et temporalités du Web, Nanterre, Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2018. Read the chapter
Structural virality
Sharad Goel, Ashton Anderson, Jake Hofman, Duncan J. Watts, “The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion”, Management Science, 2016, 62(1), pp. 180-196. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2158. Extract of the abstract : (…) We use this notion of structural virality to analyze a unique data set of a billion diffusion events on Twitter, including the propagation of news stories, videos, images, … Continued
Deletion and oblivion
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Princeton University Press, 2009. A review of the book by Matthew Longshore Smith in Identity in the Information Society 2 (December 2010) is available.
4chan and ephemerality
Michael S. Bernstein et al., “4chan and /b/:An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community”, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2011. Abstract: We present two studies of online ephemerality and anonymity based on the popular discussion board /b/ at 4chan.org: a website with over 7 million users that plays an … Continued
4chan and Habermas
Carl Chen, “The creation and meaning of Internet memes in 4chan: Popular Internet culture in the age of online digital reproduction”, Habitus 3, 2012, pp. 6-19. Abstract: From lolcats to memes, Internet gimmicks have become more and more prominent in popular cul- ture, giving rise to interactive communities such as “Yale Memes.” As a result, these viral images have … Continued
Cats online
Discover more about meow speak and proto-LOLcat thanks to Margaret Rhodes, “How Cats Became Rulers of the Interwebs”, Wired, 08 October 2015. “EVERYONE KNOWS CATS rule the Internet. But you may not know that their takeover started 20 years ago, in online chatrooms. This particular community (of people, not cats) was characterized by its habit of … Continued