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Discover a Meme (3): The Disaster Girl
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
Workshop Mémologie, May 6, 2022
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
Europe and Media Virality
A joined workshop with the French ANR CROBORA project, EU archivists and web archivists on April 8, 2022 at Maison Schuman.
Discover a meme (3): The Dancing Baby, one of the first Internet memes
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
A prehistory of social media
https://twitter.com/kevindriscoll/status/1493999214896033798