Iconography for the Age of Social Media

Iconography for the Age of Social Media

An iconic photograph of Ieshia Evans’ arrest at a Black Lives Matter protest went viral on Twitter. Twitter users’ textual and visual responses to it appear to show recurring patterns in the ways users interpret photographs. Aby Warburg recognized a similar process in the history of art, referring t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raymond Drainville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-01-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
Black Lives Matter
confrontation
iconography
iconology
Ieshia Evans
interpretation
Panofsky
photography
protest
social media
Twitter
Warburg
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/1/12

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