18 November 2024 to 20 November 2024 The HIVI project is coming to an end after three exciting years. Its final conference on the history of online virality will take place from 18 to 20 November 2024 at the Black Box (Maison des Sciences humaines, Belval). The theme for the conference is: Past, present and future of online virality. Thanks to our … Continued
By Jessica Pereira Creation The Dancing Baby, also named Oogachacka Baby or Baby Cha-Cha, a 25-year-old meme, has now become a piece of internet and web history. Its creation is owed to Michael Girard and Robert Lurye, with the help of a program originally created by Character Studio and used with 3D Studio Max, which was owned … Continued
Looking forward to our presentation at the ECREA Communication History Section Workshopnext week !
The Call for papers for our WARCnet closing conference 17-18 Oct 2022 is now online. Abstracts are due 4 March 2022
The Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg organised the 4th RESAW Conference online. With the support of the FNR (Luxembourg National Research Fund; RESCOM/2020/15002969) the conference took place on June 17-18 , 2021. The main topic was related to “Mainstream vs. Marginal Content in Web History and Web Archives”. The Conference … Continued
Rhiannon Bury, Ruth Deller, Adam Greenwood, Bethan Jones, “From Usenet to Tumblr: The changing role of social media”, Participations. Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, vol. 10/1, 2013. Abstract: The advent of social networking sites has made communication faster and easier than ever, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in fan communities. Bury … Continued