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Remediation, virality and affect: a phenomenological reading into the Alan Kurdi Image

Continuum, 2020
On 2 September 2015, Alan Kurdi’s image went viral on the social media and immediately shook the world. This paper concerns not so much with the referent as with the capacity of image to represent.
Avishek Ray
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The dead Syrian refugee boy goes viral: funerary Aylan Kurdi memes as tools of mourning and visual reparation in remix culture

Visual Communication, 2018
The picture of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, whose dead body washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015, was lauded as iconic after it went viral. Within hours, Aylan was a symbol, a hashtag and a meme.
Natalia Mielczarek
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‘Writing’ oneself into tragedy: visual user practices and spectatorship of the Alan Kurdi images on Instagram

Visual Communication, 2019
Studies into affective publics often involve textual communication. However, emotive communication is increasingly visual. This study zooms in on the representation of the suffering other in seven re-workings of the Alan Kurdi photographs that resonated ...
M. Geboers
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Memetic protest and the dramatic diffusion of Alan Kurdi

, 2018
T. Olesen
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Visual social media and affectivity: the impact of the image of Alan Kurdi and young people’s response to the refugee crisis in Oslo and Sheffield

, 2018
Lin Prøitz
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Resignifying Alan Kurdi: news photographs, memes, and the ethics of embodied vulnerability

, 2018
M. G. Durham
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Aylan Kurdi: The Human Refugee

, 2016
Nadine El-Enany
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Media Morality and Visual Icons in the Age of Social Media: Alan Kurdi and the Emergence of an Impromptu Public of Moral Spectatorship

, 2016
Mette Mortensen, H. Trenz
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The Rhetorical Power of News Photographs: A Triangulatory Reception Approach to the Alan Kurdi Images

, 2018
Jens E. Kjeldsen, I. Andersen
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