Jun 5, 2019
Memes in the Midst of Political Upheaval
Two years ago, my friend, Vicki Lee wrote an article about how memes are created and circulated to elucidate the current social and political climate.
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Memes in the Midst of Political Upheaval
Two years ago, my friend, Vicki Lee wrote an article about how memes are created and circulated to elucidate the current social and political climate.
To consider the selfie as a singular image removed from the larger practice of sharing selfies is like approaching a magazine through one word in one issue. A selfie is a photo of the selfie form, the repetition of a repeated practice.
Jodi Dean, Images Without Viewers: Selfie Communism
The term is blurring together and so are our outfit choices. Ella and Kylie are joining in on mine and @pinkcoatselfies’s pink aesthetic.
The NBA, Toronto, and the Utopian Imaginary
“The Raptors’ Jurassic Park is a Racial Utopia” is a material example of the utopian that Web 2.0 espoused, but like the Internet, the culture of sports continues to be in negotiation and contention in discussions on race, masculinity, and sports.
Cancel Culture
“Everyone Is Canceled” looks at the implications of cancel culture and how it is linked to the ways that the attention economy is mobilized.
Sad Girls, Sadness, and dodie’s Online Persona
Inspired by Theresa and I’s discussion on embodiment and its relationship to the online persona of YouTubers, Lauren Fournier’s discussion of how sad girls “use their body and privilege to speak about larger issues” (654) hearkens back to the identity that dodie has established on the platform as a sad, white female musician on YouTube.
Ultimately, photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
Interrogating Aesthetics on Instagram
Returning to the idea that selfies are gestural acts, as Jerry Saltz and Paul Frosh posit, I contend that this notion is tied to the ephemerality and aesthetic value that platforms such as Instagram provides its users. In a Visual Culture course, my friend, Justine Fajardo aimed to subvert the affordances of constructing an identity on Instagram; particularly, a well-ordered and beautified version of one’s self and interests.