Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Princeton University Press, 2009. A review of the book by Matthew Longshore Smith in Identity in the Information Society 2 (December 2010) is available.
Michael S. Bernstein et al., “4chan and /b/:An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community”, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2011. Abstract: We present two studies of online ephemerality and anonymity based on the popular discussion board /b/ at 4chan.org: a website with over 7 million users that plays an … Continued
Carl Chen, “The creation and meaning of Internet memes in 4chan: Popular Internet culture in the age of online digital reproduction”, Habitus 3, 2012, pp. 6-19. Abstract: From lolcats to memes, Internet gimmicks have become more and more prominent in popular cul- ture, giving rise to interactive communities such as “Yale Memes.” As a result, these viral images have … Continued
Discover more about meow speak and proto-LOLcat thanks to Margaret Rhodes, “How Cats Became Rulers of the Interwebs”, Wired, 08 October 2015. “EVERYONE KNOWS CATS rule the Internet. But you may not know that their takeover started 20 years ago, in online chatrooms. This particular community (of people, not cats) was characterized by its habit of … Continued
Frédéric Clavert, Martin Grandjean, Cécile Méadel, Dossier “Le temps long des réseaux sociaux numériques”, Le Temps des Médias, n°31, 2018. Ce dossier du Temps des médias souhaite mettre au centre de sa démarche une série de questionnements touchant à l’interaction entre (nouvelles) technologies, rythmes ou formats de l’information et (nouveaux) acteurs. Comment et sous quelles conditions l’émergence … Continued
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 2001. “Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.” Read more