Reaction Images and Metawitnessing

Schankweiler, Kerstin

doi:10.1080/13534645.2021.1883299

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“…McDaniel (2021) and Kim (2015) have focused more specifically on reactions to music videos, arguing they are a form of audience labor and a commodification of music culture, generating profit for social media platforms. In other audience focused research, Schankweiler (2020) considered how reaction videos shape patterns of witnessing and empathy, especially in relation to reaction videos to traumatic and/or news-worthy events.…”

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“…Despite the persistent and prolific phenomenon of reaction videos online, they remain a largely overlooked or subterranean feature of media research, mentioned in passing within broader topics such as internet memes, virality, content creators and so on (e.g., Burgess and Green 2009; Cunningham and Craig 2019; Leaver et al 2020; Milner 2018; Miltner and Highfield 2017; Phillips and Milner 2018; Tiidenberg et al 2021). The limited studies of reaction videos have, to date, emphasized their generic qualities (Warren-Crow 2016), or their function in audience reception studies (McDaniel 2021; Oh 2017; Schankweiler 2020). What is missing from this scholarship of reaction videos as a textual genre or as a barometer of audience reception is an understanding of them as a media form that has a deeper history and wider resonance.…”

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Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium

Bliss

Nansen

2022

Television & New Media

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This paper unearths the archeology of reaction media across cinema, television and the Internet. We show how reaction content exists in high and low modes, tracing their reoccurrence and remediation from art-house and horror in cinema, to television soap opera, to animated GIFS, and YouTube compilations. Because reactions can be readily repackaged and resourced, we argue that they are a form of inter-media; operating in-between media text and media reception; in-between narrative and sensation; in-between authenticity and performativity; and in-between entertainment and resource. Reaction media are a form of sensory media with material properties. The textual and aesthetic richness of reaction content informs their persistent function, allowing for generative repurposing by internet users as a form of cultural expression and also operating as a rich resource of content able to be repackaged by professional content creators for producing economic value.

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Section: Background and Literaturementioning

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Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium

Bliss

Nansen

2022

Television & New Media

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Video playback, affective witnessing, and the mobility of trauma: Video evidence of violent crime in the criminal justice system

Birze

Regehr

2023

Emotion, Space and Society

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Memes, History and Emotional Life

Barclay

Downing

2023

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Internet memes are recognised for their role in creating community through shared humour or in-group cultural knowledge. One category of meme uses historical art pieces, coupled with short texts or dialogue, as a form of social commentary on both past and present. These memes often rely on a (mis)reading of the emotions of those represented in such artwork for humorous purposes. As such, they provide an important example of transhistorical engagement between contemporary society and past artifacts centred on the nature of emotion. This Element explores the historical art meme as a key cultural form that offers insight into contemporary online emotional cultures and the ways that historical emotions enable and inform the practices of such culture. It particularly attends to humour as a mode which helps to mediate the disjuncture between past and present emotion and which enables historical emotion to 'do' political and community-building work amongst meme users.

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Reaction Images and Metawitnessing

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium

Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium

Video playback, affective witnessing, and the mobility of trauma: Video evidence of violent crime in the criminal justice system

Memes, History and Emotional Life

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