Digital Icons

Memes, Martyrs and Avatars

By:

Yasmin Ibrahim

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

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This book offers critical perspectives on the digital ‘iconic’, exploring how the notion of the iconic is re-appropriated and re-made online, and the consequences for humanity and society. Examining cross-cultural case studies of iconic images in digital spaces, the author offers original and critical analyses, theories and perspectives on the notion of the ‘iconic’, and on its movement, re-appropriation and meaning making on digital platforms. A carefully curated selection of case studies illustrates topics such as phantom memory; martyrdom; denigration and pornographic recoding; digital games as simulacra; and memes as ‘artification’. Situating the notion of the iconic firmly within contemporary cultures, the author takes a thematic approach to investigate the iconic as an unstable and unfinished phenomenon online as it travels through platforms temporally and spatially. The book will be an important resource for academics and students in the areas of media and communications, digital culture, cultural studies, visual communication, visual culture, journalism studies and digital humanities.

Author Biography:

Yasmin Ibrahim is Professor of Digital Economy and Culture at Queen Mary, University of London.

Release date Australia

October 5th, 2020

Author

Yasmin Ibrahim

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

150

Series

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

ISBN-13

9780367445539

Product ID

33422388

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