Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore
The Internet still debates over the value of its contents. Redefining traditional media within popular culture, it shatters the proper definition of mediation – based on so-called « legitimate” intermediaries. Web folklore is considered as perhaps one of the lowest forms of Internet culture ; yet, i...
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| Language: | English |
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Etudes Scientifiques Spécialisées Appliquées aux Communications Humaines, Economiques, Sociales et Symboliques
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Essachess |
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| Online Access: | http://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/article/view/8/8 |
| Summary: | The Internet still debates over the value of its contents. Redefining traditional media within popular culture, it shatters the proper definition of mediation – based on so-called « legitimate” intermediaries. Web folklore is considered as perhaps one of the lowest forms of Internet culture ; yet, it is everywhere. Observed and remediated by Net Art as trivial culture, it nonetheless shows a crucial potential in interrogating new mediations on the Internet. |
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| ISSN: | 2066-5083 1775-352X |