A prehistory of social media
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Défis européens partagés
Ce livre numérique est un projet collectif initié par la professeure Valérie Schafer dans le cadre du séminaire Digital Europe et mené par les étudiants de deuxième année du Master en histoire européenne contemporaine (MAHEC) de l’Université du Luxembourg. Les chapitres de cet ouvrage collectif portent sur des thématiques européennes sensibles et amplifiées en ligne, … Continued
Discover a meme (2): “Leave Britney alone!” and the #FreeBritney movement
By Jessica Pereira Creation “She’s so lucky, she’s a star, but she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking: If there’s nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?” – Lucky by Britney Spears. In this song of the year 2000 Britney Spears shared her discontent with her life as a celebrity. All … Continued
Memetic cultures and museums
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
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Participation Divide
Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko, “The Participation Divide: Content creation and sharing in the digital age“, Information, Communication & Society, 2008, 11:2, pp. 239-256, DOI: 10.1080/13691180801946150 Abstract: This paper looks at the prevalence of creative activity and sharing in an age when the barriers to disseminating material have been considerably lowered compared with earlier times. The authors use unique data to … Continued