Gifs
A wonderful illustrated article that allows to explore the long history of gif through text and images. Eppink, J., “A brief history of the GIF (so far)”, Journal of Visual Culture, 2014, 13(3), pp. 298- 306. Read more
Participatory Culture
Jean Burgess, Joshua, YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009. “Burgess and Green show how, over its more than a decade of existence, YouTube’s dual logics of commerciality and community have persisted, generating new genres of popular culture, new professional identities and business models for the media industries, and giving rise to … Continued
Tweets and retweets
danah boyd, d., Scott Golder., Gilad Lotan, “Tweet, tweet, retweet: Conversational aspects of retweeting on Twitter”, HICSS-43. IEEE, Kauai, HI, 6 January 2010. Abstract: Twitter—a microblogging service that enables users to post messages (“tweets”) of up to 140 characters—supports a variety of communicative practices; participants use Twitter to converse with individuals, groups, and the public at large, … Continued
Personal Connections
Nancy Baym, Personal connections in the digital age, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2015. Content : 1. New forms of personal connection; 2. Making new media make sense; 3. Communication in digital spaces; 4. Communities and networks; 5. New relationships, new selves?; 6. Digital media in everyday relationships; Conclusion: The myth of cyberspace
Metadata
“Pomerantz explains what metadata is, and why it exists. He distinguishes among different types of metadata—descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, and use—and examines different users and uses of each type. He discusses the technologies that make modern metadata possible, and he speculates about metadata’s future”. Read more about the book : Jeffrey Pomerantz, Medata, Cambridge MA, … Continued
Image virality
Arturo Deza, Devi Parikh, “Understanding Image Virality”, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015, pp. 1818-1826. Abstract: (…) In this paper we study viral images from a computer vision perspective. We introduce three new image datasets from Reddit, and define a virality score using Reddit metadata. We train classifiers … Continued