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Oh boy. It’s finally here. The day I get to talk about Digital Blackface in an academic setting. If you…

GIFs would not have the presence or function they do without popular culture and the spread of that culture through the internet. Part of the reason that GIFs can potently describe someone’s reaction or feeling in a conversation is that are pulled from movies and TV shows that viewers are familiar with. It is not… Read More GIFs and Internalizing Popular Culture

I want to focus my post on Teen Voque’s article “We need to Talk about  Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs”. I honestly, sincerely do not mean to be the one that reads an article and decides that I do not agree with any of it. I always go in with an open mind but I … Continue reading I Just Don’t Think I Agree

It was surprising to me that GIFs were created over 30 years ago according to Kate M Miltner and Tim Highfield in their article, “Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIF.” GIFs seem like they would be something that would be newer in the internet world. I have been …

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I thought seeing Kevin L. Ferguson’s digitally surreal images of movies was very intriguing.  I don’t think I knew that looking at a movie in such a way would produce anything but noise. I was surprised to see (after he pointed it out. I couldn’t tell before he talked about…