15. Jahrestagung der AG Populärkultur und Medien in Zusammenarbeit mit der AG Signale der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft Ort/Datum: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., 16.-17.11.2023 Veranstaltende: Till Heilmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Laura Niebling (Universität…
Following the conference “Creative Practices and Reflections on the Digital Image,” Marie Baab and Kevin Pauliks of the project Pictorial Picture Critique in Social Media talked with Andy Donaldson about…
Am 09. und 10. Dezember 2021 tauschten sich die beiden SPP-Projekte „Curating Digital Images“ und „Bildförmige Bildkritik in Sozialen Medien“ in einem gemeinsamen Workshop über die Medienpraktiken des digitalen Bildes…
Virality is everywhere in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not just literally, in the form of floating viruses, but because of the (mis)information that spreads through social media as…
Internet memes are popular enough by now to be used for advertising. As part of my PhD project, I observed that companies like Gucci, Lidl, Sixt and others create and…
On social media, users reflect on the Corona pandemic with memes in many different ways to address the current crisis. Originally, memes themselves were described as viruses that spread from…
The next few days will set the future course for the United States, and consequently for the rest of the world. Amidst a worldwide pandemic, the 2020 election will make…
This picture practice analysis will focus on the picture practices of Insta Repeat, an Instagram page that is curating travel photography posted on Instagram. This curation is designed to illustrate…
This second blog post presents the method(ology) used in the project Pictorial Picture Critique in Social Media: the picture practice analysis. We will exemplarily apply this new method to The…