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The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram

open access: yesSocial Media + Society, 2023
This article addresses the place that the webcomic occupies as valuable content within the repertoire of consumable options in digital social media platforms.
María Abellán Hernández   +1 more
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Veiling the Superhero: A Comparative Analysis of Dust and Qahera [PDF]

open access: yesFeminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2020
This article conducts a comparative analysis of the Egyptian webcomic superhero, Qahera with Marvel’s X-Men superhero, Dust by analysing the symbolic meaning of the veil in their storylines.
Safiyya Hosein
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Beauty: Triggering the Sociological Imagination with a Webcomic

open access: yesSociologica, 2021
The standard academic publication is often not an effective way to trigger the sociological imagination. This essay discusses an alternative means to invite people to think sociologically: a webcomic.
Giselinde Kuipers, Fiammetta Ghedini
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Sozialwissenschaftsgeschichte performativ erzählt. Hintergrund und Entstehung des Webcomics "Pragmatism Reloaded. Die Siedlerinnen von Chicago"

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2023
Mit performativen Sozialwissenschaften erhalten Fragen von Wissenschaftskommunikation und von Gegenstandsangemessenheit neue Bedeutung. Dies wird in diesem Beitrag veranschaulicht, indem wir den Entstehungszusammenhang und die Hintergründe des Webcomics "
Ursula Offenberger   +3 more
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Founding Fathers (in a Tailings Pond)

open access: yesImaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2022
This speculative essay uses an imaginary (and non-existent) comic to call a tar-sands industry founder who may have thought of himself as a goose back to Fort McMurray to see how waterfowl fare in tailings ponds. It treats S.C. Ells (1878-1971), an early-
Melanie Dennis Unrau
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Collaborative Cultural Intermediation and Communitainment Value in the Creator Economy: The Expanding Case of Webtoons

open access: yesEmerging Media, 2023
A robust web of semi-veiled unpaid cultural intermediation in the South Korean-born Webtooniverse is marking a rapidly shifting ecology of an emergent digital mediasphere.
Dingkun Wang, Brian Yecies
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Transformaciones titánicas en Cuentos del Olimpo: traumas y violencia en el cuerpo femenino

open access: yesNuevas Poligrafías, Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada, 2023
El presente artículo analiza la narrativa del webcómic Cuentos del Olimpo, de Rachel Smythe, centrándose en las transformaciones corporales del personaje de Perséfone, la diosa de la primavera y reina del Inframundo.
Mónica Salvador Serrano
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“You Can’t Combat Nothing”: Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Reframing Mental Illness Through Webcomics

open access: yesOn_Culture, 2021
Amidst the powerfully democratizing, public spheres of Web 2.0, life writing has taken on new geographies and forms of mobility through webcomics.
Shannon Sandford
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Comic-Strip Mining: Neo-Extractivism and Land Conflicts in Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020) and Nelly Luna and Jesús Cossio’s La guerra por el agua (2016)

open access: yesIdeAs, 2022
From the oil pipelines that scar the Northwest Territories transforming the lives of First Nation communities to the forest fires that rampage across the Gran Chaco due to soy deforestation, the devastating impact of neoextractivism is writ large in the ...
James Scorer
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El rincón de la sabiduría

open access: yesEntretextos, 2010
Se informa en el presente texto polifónico cómo surge el «Rincón de la Sabiduría»; así como algunas conclusiones que los asistentes (los autores) han podido entrever gracias a esta visión comunitaria y transdisciplinar.
Robert Martínez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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