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
A wonderful illustrated article that allows to explore the long history of gif through text and images. Eppink, J., “A brief history of the GIF (so far)”, Journal of Visual Culture, 2014, 13(3), pp. 298- 306. Read more
Arturo Deza, Devi Parikh, “Understanding Image Virality”, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015, pp. 1818-1826. Abstract: (…) In this paper we study viral images from a computer vision perspective. We introduce three new image datasets from Reddit, and define a virality score using Reddit metadata. We train classifiers … Continued