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The current international influence of female creators in the webtoon industry of South Korea challenges gender barriers within the traditionally male-dominated comic and film sector.
Alfonso Ruiz Rallo, Dácil Roca Vera
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Abstract This study explores how literary content is sponsored, shaped and evaluated within two popular literary and reader‐centric digital platforms: #BookTok and Webtoon. Grounded in a literacy sponsorship framework, we trace how material and immaterial sponsors, including platform algorithms, user commentary and engagement metrics, mediate access to
Sarah Jerasa, Karis Jones
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The platform policy matrix: Promotion and regulation
Abstract This study provides a comprehensive analysis of policy measures adopted by countries in response to the rapid growth of digital platforms, which significantly impact various sectors and national economies. It examines the delicate balance between regulation and innovation, offering nuanced policy recommendations.
Junic Kim, Shanghe Ahn
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“Creatures of kek:” Affordance and enregisterment within “kek” on 4chan's “/pol/” board
Abstract This paper examines the relation of affordance and enregisterment in the socialization of users through the popular 4chan phrase “kek.” This word, overwhelmingly used as an equivalent for “lol” (netspeak for “laugh out loud”), has taken up several other meanings within “/pol/,” the politically incorrect subforum on 4chan, an anonymous ...
Dillon Ludemann
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Abstract This essay argues for design as an expression of analytic rigour and ethical commitment. It explores what it might mean to ‘write’ in collaboration with the entities and forces from Country, ancestors, oceans, soil, honeyeaters, sound, wild bores, frogs, fire, ash, sand, trees, and echoes, to colour, code, bitrates, cameras, computers, and ...
Victoria Baskin Coffey, Jennifer Deger
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Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology
Abstract ‘Epistemic attunements – Regenerating anthroplogy's form’ is a collective experiment in expanding the expressive and analytic repertoire of anthropology and related disciplines. It features eleven peer‐reviewed research articles published on a standalone website that has been designed, built, and maintained by our editorial collective ...
Jennifer Deger +4 more
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The fractal canvas: complexity and constraint in webcomics [PDF]
The Web browser has offered a development of the comic beyond the page into expansive spaces of the infinite canvas, removing the limits of the printed page. Simultaneously, hypermedia has provided opportunities to generate ever more complex links to supplement or even remove the limits of a linear narrative. However, the borders of conventional comics
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Secure Component Distribution Using WebCom [PDF]
Abstract WebCom is a distributed computing architecture that may be used to distribute application components for execution over a network. A practical trust management system for the WebCom architecture is described. KeyNote-based authorization credentials are used to determine whether a WebCom server is authorised to schedule, and whether a WebCom ...
Simon N. Foley +2 more
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Neopragmatism and Webcomics: analysis of Lies
Este artigo investiga os principais aspectos narrativos e temáticos nas webcomics Mentirinhas, do artista Fábio Coala, através da filosofia neopragmatista de Richard Rorty. Inicialmente, apresentaremos a investigação dos quadrinhos digitais, ou seja, das webcomics, suas características e o contexto cultural na qual elas ocupam em nossa sociedade, as ...
Silva, Heraldo Aparecido +1 more
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The comic medium has long served as a reflection of contemporary social anxieties. Webcomics – comics created for online publication – have evolved from early works inspired by syndicated strips to ...
Elżbieta Niewiadoma
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