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Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Closing remarks by Valérie Schafer. She created several memes with generative AI to thank the participants.</p><p>End of <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a> conference, good bye, Luxembourg.</p><p><a href="https://hivi.uni.lu/2024/06/25/hivi-final-conference-online-virality-past-present-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hivi.uni.lu/2024/06/25/hivi-fi</span><span class="invisible">nal-conference-online-virality-past-present-future/</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>We could use memes for good and useful action, not just for fun and right-wing propaganda.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Chloë Arkenbout "Memes as Speculative Tools for a Future we Would Want"</p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@nebula5366/video/7274140835208301870" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tiktok.com/@nebula5366/video/7</span><span class="invisible">274140835208301870</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Good morning, Luxembourg! Third and, sadly, last day of the <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a> conference on online virality <a href="https://hivi.uni.lu/2024/06/25/hivi-final-conference-online-virality-past-present-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hivi.uni.lu/2024/06/25/hivi-fi</span><span class="invisible">nal-conference-online-virality-past-present-future/</span></a></p><p>(Report: it's cold outside, better come to the conference.)</p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>AI generated images: why do people like and forward the obviously fake images of kids building incredible sand sculptures?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>There were memes before the Internet. The analysis of a chain letter in the USA in the 19th century.</p><p>It was not a scam but a real fundraising system.</p><p>Fun fact : the number of people that you "must" relay the letter to, increased when the photocopiers became common.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Now, the results of the workshop of meme analysis.</p><p>First, "Momo challenge", a moral panic claiming there is an Internet chain letter, asking you to do every day a worst challenge, culminating in suicide. No documented case.</p><p>The team notes that the supposed monster was represented as female..</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>First question: "why is it useful to study online virality, after all?"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/goodQuestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>goodQuestion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a> </p><p>"Virality is a good excuse to study a lot of interesting things"</p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Quentin Lobbé (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences – CAMS/CNRS, EHESS)</p><p>Nice visualisations.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Alexandre Faye (Bibliothèque nationale de France)</p><p>The Buzz-f project: track virality on the BnF Web archives (experimental).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Ben Els (Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg) about the Luxembourg Web Archive, which archives all the luxembourgish Web sites. (All the sites under .lu and a few others.)</p><p>Plus extra collection for important events.</p><p>They also have a special access to news sites with paywall like <a href="https://lequotidien.lu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lequotidien.lu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. (Harvest becomes more and more difficult, crawlers struggle with various barriers. For instance, crawling Facebook for pages of election candidates is hard.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Roundtable on methods and archives at <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a>.</p><p>Fred Pailler starts: how do you study online virality? Which sources? Internet Archive, scientific datasets, commercial platforms (APIs less and less open to researchers), Wikipedia keeps track of some memes, etc</p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Help me for the afternoon session at the <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a> conference on online virality. Did you notice the meme "Put it back" after the ship Evergiven was freed from the Suez canal? Or did it escape your attention?<br>Same question for the post-meme "Add another ship".</p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Then the workshop where, in small groups, we worked on analyzing memes. The group I'm in worked on the "Put it back" meme after the <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/Evergiven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evergiven</span></a> was freed from the Suez Canal. </p><p><a href="https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Ever-Green-PUT-IT-BACK-by-llevine2934/74851521.SWO0S.XYZ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Ever-G</span><span class="invisible">reen-PUT-IT-BACK-by-llevine2934/74851521.SWO0S.XYZ</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Sorry for not live tooting the roundtable this morning at the <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a> conference but I was in it so I could'nt fediwriting at the same time.</p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>I love the term "curated spontaneity".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Live experience: the speaker displays a crossover of two memes and asks who in the audience know what these memes are about. (Four hands raised. I had myself no idea.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/niche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>niche</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>NIche content is something which is not mainstream (does not an incredible number of likes/reposts) but has a lot of meaning for a specific group.</p><p>Content does not need to be successfuli n numbers to be important. (As the speaker says "define success")</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>Bucher even acknowledges that social scientists do not use algorithm in the correct sense. For them, it is simply a synonymous of software taking decisions they don't like.</p><p>"It's like we are talking of God"<br>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
Stéphane Bortzmeyer<p>OK, let's start. Idil Galip (University of Amsterdam) on "Beyond Virality: The Triumph of “Niche” Content on Algorithmically Ordered Platforms"</p><p>(Yes, every platform, including Matstodon or Pleroma interfaces, order according to an algorithm. But she talks about the platforms that do not follow a chronological order and choose which content to display.)<br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/HIVI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIVI</span></a></p>
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