Hi Ruth You might find interesting J. Newman's Best before: videogames, supersession, and obsolescence (2012), L. Shifman's Memes in digital culture (2013) and E. Guffey's Retro: the culture of revival (2006). S. Reynolds' Retromania (2011) is also an interesting read. Best, Marilou Polymeropoulou DPhil in Music University of Oxford St. Peter's College http://mariloup.wordpress.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Deller, Ruth A Sent: 14 November 2013 12:55 To: 'Air-L@listserv.aoir.org' Subject: [Air-L] Retro technologies and memes Hi all I'm writing a piece that involves discussion of the use of MS Paint within a particular web culture and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of articles (whether 'academic' or not) on the trend within web cultures, particularly meme cultures, to deliberately reference 'primitive' or 'retro'-technologies such as Paint? I'm not just interested for this article - we're delivering new modules looking at media technologies soon so any articles about retro cultures in terms of referencing and reusing older technologies would be interesting. Ruth Deller Principal Lecturer in Media Room 9210 Cantor Building, Shefield Hallam University, UK r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk<mailto:r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk>, http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk<http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk/>, @ruthdeller<http://www.twitter.com/ruthdeller> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/