Beyond photography: appropriation of context on

Facebook

Session 2. Social Media: The Visual, The Verbal, & the Self

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Fatima AZIZEHESS, LhivicCulture Visuellehttp://culturevisuelle.org/imagecircle/

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Questions:

1. How context is recreated & appropriated in online social networks?

2. Which content is taken, from whom and to appropriate which contexts online?

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Green posters replace Facebook profile avatars

February- April 2011

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Source: USA Today

Apple Application for Mac: Flags & Faces, 2010

Budweiser's Facebook Application, 2010

Flag painting on faces and profile avatars

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Green posters displayed as profile avatars during the 2011 International Cricket Cup

Current Cricket team captain: Shahid Afridi

Previous Cricket team captain: Imran Khan

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'Go Green Team' - a Facebook page

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'Go Green Team Images' -Album

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From BBM profile to Facebook avatars

Getty Images, June 2009.

Press release, 1992.

Mediatized pictures recycled for Go Green Images

Profile avatar : a visibility amplifier

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Questions/Thank you

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Crossroads in Cultural Studies9th International Conference. Paris, 3 July, 2012