Albin Wagener, “The Postdigital Emergence of Memes and GIFs: Meaning, Discourse, and Hypernarrative Creativity”, Postdigit Sci Educ, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00160-1 Abstract: The use of memes and GIFs has a significant influence on interactions in social networks and online forums. As productions or utterances, these modes of communication benefit from thorough research works, notably led by Shifman, thus … Continued
Yuheng Hu, Lydia Manikonda and Subbarao Kambhampati, “What We Instagram: A First Analysis of Instagram Photo Content and User Types”, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2014, 8(1). Abstract: (…) In this paper, we present both qualitative and quantitative analysis on Instagram. We use computer vision techniques to examine the photo content. … Continued
“This first in-depth study of Instagram by Lev Manovich combines methods from art history, media studies, and data science, and draws on computational analysis of 16 million Instagram photos shared in 17 global cities since 2012. The data collection and analysis were performed in Manovich’s Cultural Analytics Lab in the Qualcomm Institute (UCSD Division of … Continued
Frank Russell, Newslore. Contemporary Folklore on the Internet, University Press of Mississipi, 2011. ” (…) In Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet author Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium. Among the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails and on the … Continued
Several newspapers’ articles from the 2015 Internet phenomena to its scientific analysis and use against domestic violence. Adam Rogers, “The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress“, Wired, 26 February 2015. “Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much … 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