by Jessica Pereira Creation Zoë Roth is a name that some might be familiar with, but “Disaster Girl” is more likely to invoke a reaction. Yet they are one and the same. The meme “Disaster Girl” is a picture of a little girl smiling devilishly into the camera in front a burning house, as if … Continued
Vous ❤️ les mèmes ? Vous êtes admin de neurchi, chercheur.e, journaliste ou autre ? Voici notre workshop le 6 mai prochain, en ligne, pour échanger sur les pratiques, les réflexions et la création de mèmes. Rejoignez-nous pour intervenir, animer ou assister à cette journée ! 🥳 pic.twitter.com/ZkLnhjdo8V — Albin Wagener (@albinwagener) March 28, 2022
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 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