Fake News and virality
Discover Tommaso Venturini , “From Fake to Junk News, the Data Politics of Online Virality“, in D. Bigo, E. Isin and E. Ruppert (eds.), Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights, Routledge, 2019.
Buzz and rumour
In 2007, in Médiamorphoses, Pascal Froissart, who is an expert in analysing rumours, enlightens the I kiss you phenomenon, as well as commercial buzz. Read more
The Internet Meme Culture
This book was published in 2016 by Nicolas Nova and Daniel Kaplan. Jump with them in this pop digital culture !
Memes as Troublemakers
We started our series with Limor Shifman and continue with his research: “Memes in a Digital Worlds: Reconciling with a conceptual troublemaker” was published in 2013 in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and enlightens memes phenomena with the case of the viral “Leave Britney Alone”. Read more
YouTubers
For the second day of our Reading challenge, let’s suggest a french reading : Divina Frau-Meigs, « Les youtubeurs : les nouveaux influenceurs ! », Nectart, 2017/2 (n° 5), pp. 126-136. DOI : 10.3917/nect.005.0126. URL : https://www.cairn.info/revue-nectart-2017-2-page-126.htm
About Shifman’s book
Let’s start our challenge “1 day – 1 reading on virality” with a “must-read” on the topic : Limor Shifman’s book Memes in Digital Culture (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014) and a review of this book in Digital Humanities Quaterly, by Kevin Lewis (volume 10, 2, 2016). Read more