Storytelling
Fail again. Fail epic
Valentina Tanni
Digital culture is reappropriating error and failure and using it as a critique of the prevailing aesthetic canons.
Storytelling
keep it cUUUUUUte – how do we write on the Internet?
Joana Girona
Every day we make linguistic decisions about how to express ourselves on the Internet, and the way we type is also a way of expressing who we are.
Technology
“No thoughts, head empty” Would digital disconnection be a utopia?
Alba Lafarga
Immersed in the digital vortex, we look at some ideas about silence and taking refuge from the noise of the internet.
Storytelling
“Te quiero ride como a mi bike”: what if we weren’t afraid of the cringe police?
Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
How do we process feelings of cringe and fear of ridicule in times of hyper-exposure to social media?
Storytelling
Snack Culture and Virality
Ainhoa Marzol
The short and fragmented formats that succeed on social media make decontextualisation one of the cornerstones of today’s digital culture.
Storytelling
The Golden Age of Memes
Ainhoa Marzol
During the pandemic, memes have offered a way to cope with the crisis and weave a collective narrative.
Commons
Memes as digital crafts
Felipe G. Gil
A democratic source of collective creativity, memes define our digital culture through transformative practices.
Technology
Dank memes: the reaction to an unliveable Internet
Albert Lloreta
Emerging from the dawn of the first Internet, today dank memes can be understood as an absurd expression that condenses the spirt of our times and as an expression of fury that boycotts the marketing logic of the Internet.
Commons
Memes and Strange Politics
Jaron Rowan
Emerging from the tension between the political and politics is a form of aesthetic expression that renews the debate in the public sphere.