“This insightful and analytical account of mass protest in the 21st century focuses on the “intertwined” power and weaknesses of new technologies that can be used to galvanize large numbers of people. … This comprehensive, thought-provoking work makes a valuable contribution to understanding recent political developments and provides a clear path by which grassroots organizers can improve future … Continued
Lawrence Evalyn, C. E. M. Henderson, Julia King, Jessica Lockhart, Laura Mitchell, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, “One Loveheart at a Time: The Language of Emoji and the Building of Affective Community in the Digital Medieval Studies Environment“, Digital Humanities Quaterly 14, 3, 2020. 🔭🔭🔭Abstract: The Old Books, New Science (OBNS) Lab began using Slack in May … Continued
The HIVI project is looking forward to participating and contributing to the RESAW 2021 conference, with a special evening dedicated to digital cultures and a roundtable on virality. The 4th RESAW conference, organised by the C²DH (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History) at the University of Luxembourg, is part of a remote Web archiving week starting on … Continued
“What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself”. An exciting “shadow history of the Internet” by Finn Brunton (Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 2013).
“NSFW looks at how and why social media content is tagged ‘not safe’ and shows how this serves to conflate sexual content and risk”. Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett, Ben Light, NSFW. Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media, Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 2020.
“Lorsqu’une crise virale advient, ce ne sont pas seulement les virus qui se propagent avec leurs propres mécanismes, c’est aussi chaque société qui fait émerger tout son potentiel viral, selon un fonctionnement social tout à fait ordinaire que Tarde avait pensé sous le terme d’imitation à la fin du XIXe siècle.” Dominique Boullier, “Virus, mèmes et bonnes … Continued