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
A new exciting reading : “The Left Can Meme: Strategies to Challenge Dutch Oppressive Political Discourses” by Chloë Arkenbout, November 11, 2021 on the blog networkcultures.org.
By Jessica Pereira Creation Pepe the Frog is an anthropomorphic frog that became a viral internet meme. It was created by Matt Furie in 2005 in a comic named Boy’s Club. Pepe the Frog is one of the teenage monster characters among others named Brett, Andy and Landwolf in said comic. However, this character became famous in 2008 on … 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
Arran John Rees, “Collecting Online Memetic Cultures: how tho“, Museum & Society, vol. 19, n°2, 2021, pp. 199-219. Abstract: Using insights gained from reflexive dyadic interviews undertaken as part of ongoing action research, this article positions memes as new and emerging objects of digital cultural heritage and begins to work through the implications of collecting … Continued
The Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg organised the 4th RESAW Conference online. With the support of the FNR (Luxembourg National Research Fund; RESCOM/2020/15002969) the conference took place on June 17-18 , 2021. The main topic was related to “Mainstream vs. Marginal Content in Web History and Web Archives”. The Conference … Continued