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Instagram : visual social media cultures
\"In the first book-length examination of Instagram, Leaver, Highfield and Abidin trace how this mobile photography app has developed as a platform and a culture. Rich with examples from across the world, from birth pictures to selfies at funerals, Instagram is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communication\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIF
The animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a digital file format with a long history within internet cultures and digital content. Emblematic of the early Web, the GIF fell from favor in the late 1990s before experiencing a resurgence that has seen the format become ubiquitous within digital communication. While the GIF has certain technical affordances that make it highly versatile, this is not the sole reason for its ubiquity. Instead, GIFs have become a key communication tool in contemporary digital cultures thanks to a combination of their features, constraints, and affordances. GIFs are polysemic, largely because they are isolated snippets of larger texts. This, combined with their endless, looping repetition, allows them to relay multiple levels of meaning in a single GIF. This symbolic complexity makes them an ideal tool for enhancing two core aspects of digital communication: the performance of affect and the demonstration of cultural knowledge. The combined impact of these capabilities imbues the GIF with resistant potential, but it has also made it ripe for commodification. In this article, we outline and articulate the GIF’s features and affordances, investigate their implications, and discuss their broader significance for digital culture and communication.
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Health experts fight to contain Ebola outbreak
Ebola has been called the \"apocalypse bug\" and has already caught the imagination of Hollywood scriptwriters. Dustin Hoffman battled the virus in Outbreak, one of several films to revel in the horrifying way it kills. Most deaths occur around day 12 as a result of organ failure. The virus comes in several strains. The least deadly kills about half those infected and the most deadly around 90 per cent. Scientists study the virus behind airlocks, and wear protective suits. The virus was named after a river in northern Congo where it was discovered in 1976. It takes certain circumstances for Ebola to take hold, since small outbreaks in rural areas often go undetected. The virus is not readily transmitted without close contact with an infected person. In the 1995 epidemic that killed 244 people in Kikwit, Zaire, one factor was the ritual washing of corpses, which put people at risk of contact with infected body fluids.
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