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
Socio-political protests and memes
During the 4th RESAW conference (17-18 June 2021) organised by C2DH, Tuğçe Oklay (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis) was part on the roundtable related to virality and memes with Pierre-Carl Langlais (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III), Frédéric Clavert (University of Luxembourg), Ditte Laursen (The Royal Danish Library), Surbhi Tandon (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University), Durgesh Tripathi (GGS Indraprastha University). Her presentation … Continued
Web archiving of the COVID crisis in Europe. Infrastructures, agencies, challenges and tensions
Friday 2 July 2021, 10.00-12.00 am This panel, which is organized by the WARCnet network, aims to analyze web archiving and web archives during an unexpected and disruptive event: the COVID-19 crisis. Combining analysis by web archivists and scholars, it addresses several issues currently at stake, may it be with regards to the historization and … Continued
Youth digital participation
Ioana Literat, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Melissa Brough & Alicia Blum-Ross, “Analyzing youth digital participation: Aims, actors, contexts and intensities“, The Information Society, 2018, 34, 4, pp. 261-273, DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2018.1463333 Abstract: Participation is often used as a blanket term that is uncritically celebrated; this is particularly true in the case of youth digital participation. In this article, … Continued