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>
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/
Hi all, I'm sure Nathan Jurgenson and others have commented about this on the Cyborgology blog (http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/). I'd also second the suggestion of Simon Reynolds' Retromania - with the addition of the various commentaries about his book. More generally, I'd be surprised if this hasn't been discussed much more widely in the context of music subcultures - which is what Reynolds' book mainly concentrates upon (the use of early synthesisers in current electronic music, the widespread practice in heavy metal, punk and 'indie' circles of releasing vinyl, etc. etc.) Alexander David Pask-Hughes PhD student Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University E-mail: a.pask-hughes@lancaster.ac.uk Twitter: @adpaskhughes ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Deller, Ruth A [R.A.Deller@shu.ac.uk] 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/
On the very non academic side, the artist/writer behind Hyperbole and a Half (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/), Allie Brosh, uses MS paint to create her comics. (Sidenote: it's a great comic. Highly recommended.) She uses this for both comedic<http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html>and serious<http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html>purposes. Her comic describing her struggle with depression is one of the more accessible and clear descriptions I've seen. One particular drawing has become a meme. See here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-all-the-y She recently opened a reddit thread that may contain useful commentary, or a place for you to pose the same question. ( http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ozt33/i_am_allie_brosh_the_drawwriter... ). Best, Jodi. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Pask-Hughes, Alexander < a.pask-hughes@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sure Nathan Jurgenson and others have commented about this on the Cyborgology blog (http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/).
I'd also second the suggestion of Simon Reynolds' Retromania - with the addition of the various commentaries about his book. More generally, I'd be surprised if this hasn't been discussed much more widely in the context of music subcultures - which is what Reynolds' book mainly concentrates upon (the use of early synthesisers in current electronic music, the widespread practice in heavy metal, punk and 'indie' circles of releasing vinyl, etc. etc.)
Alexander David Pask-Hughes
PhD student Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis
Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University
E-mail: a.pask-hughes@lancaster.ac.uk Twitter: @adpaskhughes
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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.
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Ruth, In terms of non-academic sources knowyourmeme.com can be quite useful. For MS paint based memes I usually think of the rage faces/comics: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rage-comics Katie Brennan PhD Candidate UH-Manoa, Dept. of Political Science On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Deller, Ruth A <R.A.Deller@shu.ac.uk>wrote:
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>
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