Looking forward to presenting our research tomorrow 17 février 2022 — 17h Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles) Ethics and Semiotics of Visualizing Archives through Interfaces Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg) The Memes Challenges. Virality, Mediatic Dimensions and Heritagization
Looking forward to our presentation at the ECREA Communication History Section Workshopnext week !
A must-read, just out ! CRITICAL MEME READER: GLOBAL MUTATIONS OF THE VIRAL IMAGE Edited by Chloë Arkenbout, Jack Wilson and Daniel de Zeeuw Beyond the so-called ‘Alt-right’ and its attendant milieus on 4chan and Reddit, memes have passed the post-digital threshold and entered new theoretical, practical, and geographical territories beyond the stereotypical young, white, … Continued
By Jessica Pereira Creation “She’s so lucky, she’s a star, but she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking: If there’s nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?” – Lucky by Britney Spears. In this song of the year 2000 Britney Spears shared her discontent with her life as a celebrity. All … Continued
During the 4th RESAW conference (17-18 June 2021) organised by C2DH, Tuğçe Oklay (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis) was part on the roundtable related to virality and memes with Pierre-Carl Langlais (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III), Frédéric Clavert (University of Luxembourg), Ditte Laursen (The Royal Danish Library), Surbhi Tandon (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University), Durgesh Tripathi (GGS Indraprastha University). Her presentation … Continued
Søren Vigild Poulsen, “Becoming a semiotic technology – a historical study of Instagram’s tools for making and sharing photos and videos”, Internet Histories, 2018, 2: 1-2, pp. 121-139, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2018.1459350 Abstract: (…) Drawing on a social semiotic multimodal framework, this article presents an analysis of selected tools in the Instagram mobile user interface from 2010 until 2017. It reports on the findings of … Continued