Digital Icons: Memes, Martyrs and Avatars (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)

By: Yasmin Ibrahim

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 150 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000178487
Related ISBNs:: 9781003010319, 9780367548056, 9780367445539
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/05/20
Copyrighted By:: Yasmin Ibrahim
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Language Arts, Communication
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.