During the 2022-2023 academic year, the VIRAL seminar will continue to focus on the many ways we may think about online virality and analyse the circulation of born-digital content. The seminar will offer an interdisciplinary overview of virality, digital cultures, circulations and traces. It includes three main presentation types: analysis of corpora, methodological considerations, and … Continued
By Jessica Pereira Creation 2012 and 2013 are interesting years for filmed memes involving music and dances. There was the “Gangnam Style”, a hit song by Psy. It inspired people to film themselves while doing the horse dance that the singer performed in his music video. “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus were viral songs too. These birthed … Continued
Les mèmes, ces images ou séquences d’images fixes ou animées, transformées et détournées, inondent le web et nos messageries. Personne n’y échappe. Ils circulent sur Internet, à la portée de tout un chacun, pour nous faire rire, pour critiquer ou donner à penser.Parfois regardée avec mépris, cette nouvelle manifestation de la pop culture recèle un … Continued