Activism and Social Media Mamfakinch: From Protest Slogan to Mediated Activism. Annemarie Iddins, Fairfield University. [CN: rape.] Iddens argues that the digital must be understood as part of a network of different media - the Mamfakinch collective only makes sense as a response to the limitations of the Moroccan media (which combines strong state influence … Continue reading ICA18, Day 3: activism, subalterns, more activism, post/colonial imaginations, and cultural symbols
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AoIR2016: Representation, presentation, embodiment/emplacement
Crystal Abidin (Anthropology & sociology, communication & media studies, University of Western Australia) talked about her research on 'Gross is the new like: allure, visceral camp, and carnivalesque commerce in grotesque microcelebrity'. Turner (2004) discusses celebrity's cultural shift towards the momentary, visual, and sensational. Marhsall (2010) argues that we're moving from representational media (where others manage … Continue reading AoIR2016: Representation, presentation, embodiment/emplacement
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