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The Renewal of the Webcomic in the Era of Platformization: The Case of 9Gag on Instagram
Social Media and 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.
Maria Abellan Hernández +1 more
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Journal of Media EconomicsWe examined how the amount of violence depicted in a webcomic episode was related to readers’ ratings of the episode and their perceptions of violence. Furthermore, we investigated how the relationships varied depending on whether the webcomic was action-oriented. To measure violence and readers’ perceptions, we used computational methods based on deep
Sang Yup Lee
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Forum: 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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Veiling the Superhero: A Comparative Analysis of Dust and Qahera [PDF]
Feminist 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
Sociologica, 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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Founding Fathers (in a Tailings Pond)
Imaginations: 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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Emerging 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
Nuevas 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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On_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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IdeAs, 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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