Theatre Photography in Nineteenth Century France: Document, Archive or Pure Fiction?

"Indoor performance photography, which was born in France on the occasion of the Paris World Exhibition in 1889, remains a problematic theatrical and media object to this day. But at the Belle Epoque and until the Second World War at least, it requires to be approached with all the more caution because it is always the fruit of multiple manipulations, either at the time of the making of the shots (mandatory posing of actors, specific lighting, etc.), or at the time of their “post-production” (printing, but especially edition in review or volume). A complex and particularly rich object that must be studied in its context (publications or archives), stage photography is then offered as much as a document to be deciphered as a fiction to be deconstructed. Keywords: theatre photography, France, Belle Epoque, document, photographic archives. "

WITNESSING LIKE A USER: MOBILE NOTIFICATIONS AND THE LAYERED CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIATIZED TERRORISM

This paper study the imbrication of data-driven devices and platform infrastructures and the mediatized construction of terrorist attacks. It analyzes the role of smartphone push notifications and technical affordances of “layering” media across diverse media devices and platforms in users’ mediatized life (e.g. screenshotting a tweet, posting it to Facebook, and users’ commenting on the post), and these platform and device features role in co-constructing terrorist attacks as datafied media events along with mobile media posts and reactions by users and formal news accounts and aggregations by media outlets. Using a data collection framework that logs screenshots of participants’ mobile media devices every five seconds over the course of longitudinal studies, I qualitatively observe screenshots capturing the mobile media usage of 16 subjects from late May to late June 2017, including media relating to two terrorist attacks in the UK. This paper illustrates the role of mobile device and datafied platform features in the sparking of mediatized microrituals and the broader construction of terrorist attacks as datafied media events. It also highlights the layering of mediatization, wherein the above-mentioned interface elements often migrate with a given media object across platforms within a single mobile environment on the user-end, and as it is layered with the users’ in-person contexts beyond the screen. The study of mediatized terrorism, therefore, must be understood across these layers, necessitating further empirical exploration and conceptual development.

How to survive a public faming: Understanding "The Spiciest Memelord" via the temporal dynamics of involuntary celebrification

Online public shaming has gained recent popular and academic attention as the tools of networked life are used to enforce societal norms against perceived deviant behavior. However, these acts of non-consensual identity formation do not necessarily need to be negative in nature. Indeed, similar dynamics can occur when an individual’s behavior aligns with societal expectations — a positive incident of involuntary celebrification, which we call “public faming”. These public famings remain understudied within celebrity and microcelebrity studies, despite the fact that more and more ordinary people are being suddenly propelled to short-lived meme fame. This paper seeks to understand the effect on individuals who are non-consensually elevated into the public eye by expanding our understanding of celebrification beyond a simple linear progression from not-famous to microcelebrity to celebrity. As a case study for this new framework, the author performs an autoethnography of her own experience from winning a trivia game show with an Internet-savvy answer, simultaneously giving extremely fleeting mainstream televised fame and viral internet fame. Our new framework of celebrity temporal dynamics allows us to not only understand how a person’s identity can be transformed into a media object subjected to corporations’ and strangers’ manipulations. We also introduce the tool of “radical reciprocity” to help victims of public faming understand potential paths for them to reclaim their narrative.

Chapaev as a Media Object: from the Civil War to the Black Lives Matter Movement

The article explores the dynamics of the image of V.I. Chapaev in the Soviet and post-Soviet media space. Using the theory of post-memory by M. Hirsch and S. O’Donoghue as methodology of research, the author analyzes the transformation of the main characteristics of the image, its place in Russian historical memory and in the cultural tradition. V.I. Chapaev became one of the most significant characters in the Soviet cultural tradition. After the fall of the Soviet Union the image of Chapaev however retained its significance in the context of rethinking the Soviet heritage. The article highlights the following stages of transformation of V.I. Chapaev’s image: the inclusion in the "founding myth" and gradual transformation into a Soviet epic hero (crowding out collective trauma); debunking the heroic status within the framework of the "carnival culture" and turning into a character of anecdotes (de-traumatization in the process of post-memory formation); transformation into a hero of Internet memes (transformation of post-memory and de-actualization of the themes of the Civil War). The author argues that the burst of memes depicting Chapaev in 2020 demonstrates a post-ironic attitude to the Black Lives Matter movement in Russian society. The author concludes that the fact that Chapaev’s image was included in a fundamentally different political and cultural context demonstrates that the symbolic potential of the Civil War memory in Russia is entirely exhausted and can no longer serve as a tool for the formation of commemorative practices.

The Robot Does Not Exist: Remixing Psychic Automatism and Artificial Creative Intelligence

In the just-published Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales of the Digital Afterlife, artists Mark Amerika and Laura Hyunjhee Kim perform as MALK, a new media remix band that ruminates on the post-digital life of the traditional scholarly book. Working against the concept of an e-book, the publication includes an original music video titled the Digital Afterlife as well as a downloadable PDF that the artists refer to as an imaginary digital media object (IDMO). The work has been released as the inaugural publication in the new MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series with Open Humanities Press. For this special issue of Media-N, MALK proposes their next IDMO track by focusing on the relationship between AI-generated forms of remix and artist-generated forms of psychic automatism. The experiment will start with the artists improvising a cluster of hand-drawn charts that conceptually blend their musings on what they refer to as “future forms of artificial creative intelligence.” The language in these charts will then serve as source material to input into an advanced Generative Pre-trained Transformer to trigger source material for a new music video and an adjoining PDF. Our question is whether the Generative Pre-trained Transformer as an advanced yet still essentially weak AI can co-write the artists’ IDMO as they address issues related to their research into psychic automatism and artificial creative intelligence.

Framing of Health Communication in Islamic Religious Education in New Media

Health communication is needed by the Indonesian people. Islamic education greatly facilitates all forms of health for humanity. This study uses a new media object that is the national media Twitter which contains health information in 2019. The research problem formulation is how to frame health communication in Islamic religious education in new media? The purpose of this study was to determine the health communication framing in Islamic religious education in new media. Health communication is the art of informing influencing and motivating individuals, institutions and society about important matters in the health sector in improving the quality of life and health of individuals in society. The results of the study, the dimensions of informing, influencing, motivating individuals, and society through multilevel Twitter results. In the personal health information unit, this information is very often shared by the cyber media. However, if it is associated with the healthy behavior of new media users, it is seen to have followed. In public health information units such as sneezing and littering: this information is often shared by new media. Cybermedia users are very following.

This Is My Voice in a Mask

Our bodies have become attuned to a new regime of sensory experiences that now mediate our participation in the public sphere. This commentary is about the day I started to quarantine my voice and to wear a mask. In it, I explore the mask as a media object, and as a border between the body and the commons, including the ethics of communicable transmission. It marks some provisional thoughts in the context of a broader project on mask cultures.

Peran Perempuan dalam Mengembangkan Usaha Mikro Kecil dan Menengah dalam rangka menuju Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN di Kota Tangerang Selatan

Abstrak: Pengungkapan diri biasa dilakukan dalam komunikasi antar pribadi yangmenandai kedekatan antar orang yang terlibat di dalam komunikasi. Namunpengungkapan diri yang dilakukan oleh pemilik akun @fitrianfuad seorangpenyintas autoimun dilakukan di media sosial instagram. Penelitian ini bertujuanuntuk mendeskripsikan pengungkapan diri perempuan penyintas autoimmune dimedia sosial instagram. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah kualitatif denganmetode etnografi virtual. Analisis yang digunakan dalam peneleitian ini adalahanalisis media siber dengan level ruang media, level dokumen media, level objekmedia dan pengalaman. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teoriself disclosure. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengungkapan diridisampaikan menggunakan foto, video, dan tulisan dalam kolom caption. Setiapteks dan foto yang diproduksi dan dibagikan kepada khalayak penggunainstagram, dengan tujuan untuk melepaskan setiap persoalan yang ada didalamhidupnya sehingga melalui keterbukaan yang diungkapkan ke wilayah publikmembuat dirinya mendapat dukungan moril dalam bentuk support system danorang-orang didekatnya dan orang yang baru dikenalnya melalui instagram.Kata kunci: pengungkapan diri, perempuan, penyintas, autoimun, etnografivirtual, instagram Abstract: Self-disclosure is usually done in interpersonal communication that marksthe closeness between people involved in communication. Fitri Napiz is a survivor ofautoimmune. This Study aims to discribe the self-disclosure of womanwithautoimmune. The approach used is qualitative with etnography virtual methode.The analysis used in this research is the analysis of cyber media with the level ofmedia space, the level of media documents, the level of media object and theexperience. The Theory used in this reserach is self-disclosure theory. The Resultsshowed that self-disclosure was conveyed using photos, videos, and the text incaption column. Every text and photos produced and distributed to the users ofinstagram, this is a way for Fitria Napiz to release every problem in her life. So thatthrough the oppenness that is revealed to the public domain. She gets moral supportlike support system from people nearby and new people she knows throughinstragam.Key words: self-disclosure, women, autoimmune, etnografi virtual, instagram