reflected on the roles and meanings of memes, as well as the reasons why so many memes go viral. This Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture interview with the author reflects on questions arising from the study. It also expands on the relationship between memes and viral media, whether brands can suffer setbacks when trying to manufacture 'creative' memes, global tactics for meme usage, their role in politics and the differences and similarities between meme culture in Russia and the West.
and the co-editor of two books on gaming and culture Feminism in Play (Gray, Vorhees and Vossen, 2018) and Woke Gaming (Gray and Leonard, 2018) which looks at the potential of video games for instigating social change and justice. As well as publishing in academic journals, she also has an active blog and a podcast. In this interview WPCC asks Dr Gray to consider the viral aspects to the spread of intersectionality discourse and whether commercial social media platforms have been, in the end, hospitable to 'voice to anti-racist, anti-misogynist narratives?' Opportunities within viral digital culture for users of colour and women, the characteristics of digital feminism, #BlackLivesMatter, Black Cyberfeminism and digital inequality are other topics covered.
Radio from its beginning has been a revolutionary technology adaptable both to violent overthrow of corrupt regimes and gradual almost unheeded social change. This issue of WPCC invited submission of papers on the subject of radio and revolution. We suggested that revolution be intended in its broadest sense, encompassing not only the violent overthrow of governments and their counter measures but also revolution in the sense of radical social change. Radio's long set of histories and traditions of activism and community-building are foremost in this issue's material. This editorial reflects on key themes of the journal issue: motivations of free radio practitioners, key phases in development of community broadcasting, radio's potential for social liberation of several kinds and its claims to be a form of mass self-communication in which users also take charge of the media platform itself and lastly radio's presence alongside social media like Twitter in contemporary activism and protests.
Two of the editors of the volume Aesthetics of the Commons (Diaphanes 2021) Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder discuss with WPCC journal the potential and meanings of the digital commons in creating new subjectivities and new imaginaries on and off the internet. Within this they question whether the focus on the aesthetics of the commons is useful for understanding phenomena such as ' artistic shadow libraries', pointing towards the need to build institutions for which ' practices of commoning are central'. Also considered are the modern art system, copyright, and the corrosive individualism of Western modernity in the artistic sphere. Against these factors they note instead that, 'the commons are structured through different relations, and care expresses that difference'. New economic approaches are needed in the arts supported by political actors which might include the 're-envisioning [of] public institutions, such as public broadcasting, as part of a commons'.
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