Giulia Giorgi

University of Milan | UNIMI · Department of Social and Political Sciences

This paper investigates how internet memes are complex and stratified objects, going beyond the standardized definition of ‘image macro’ habitually employed by scholars. To this end, we take the 2019 Italian government crisis as a case study and analyze a dataset of related 1.269 memes using a combination of computational and qualitative methodolog...

The article contributes to the studies of digital spaces and women’s action by analysing the case of Amleta, a collective founded during Covid-19 pandemic by a group of Italian theatre actresses. Using a digital ethnographic approach that combines data coming from Amleta’s Instagram account and in-depth interviews with content creators, this study...

This article presents a qualitative analysis of audiovisual materials published on Instagram and TikTok during the first national lockdown due to Covid-19 (March – May 2020) through the hashtag #iorestoacasa. This represented a carrier for the circulation of pandemic-related content produced by Italian users while experiencing unprecedented social...

The rise of right-wing populists in Western Europe has often been linked to their ability to exploit social media affordances to fuel anger. While scholarship has already examined the emotional dimension of the populist right’s online communication, with some researchers studying specifically the fuelling of anger among social media users, we still...

This contribution seeks to demonstrate how studying memes as a collection depends on the website or platform where they are sourced. To do so, we compare how memes, specifically internet memes, are conceived in the well – known meme repository (Know Your Meme) with those from a meme host and generator (Imgur), an imageboard (4chan), a short-form vi...

Online pornography, like other forms of cultural production, is increasingly subject to processes of platformization. While research has focused on the diffusion of online pornography and its broader implications, less attention has been paid to the algorithmic infrastructures through which platforms distribute and manage pornographic content, and...

Online pornography, like other forms of cultural production, is increasingly subject to processes of platformization. While research has focused on the diffusion of online pornography and its broader implications, less attention has been paid to the algorithmic infrastructures through which platforms distribute and manage pornographic content, and...

Given their prevalence in a contemporary digital society, memes hardly need an introduction. They pervade playful social media and are also produced and shared in abundance around elections, protests, and social movements. Much of the scholarship surrounding memes takes as its point of departure that they are collections of artefacts, rather than s...

In questo capitolo ci proponiamo di contribuire alla letteratura sulla nuova «teppa urbana». Attraverso un’analisi empirica dell’estetica dei suoi membri. In particolare, ci proponiamo di analizzare come la «teppa» si autorappresenti esteticamente nella sfera digitale di Instagram, impiegando tecniche di Digital Methods.

Our contribution aims at conceptualising the notion of «memetic cult of personality», which originates from the memetic production surrounding political figures, especially during periods of intense media coverage, like that triggered by the Coronavirus outbreak. To do so, we focus on two case studies from the Italian political sphere: former Prime...

The chapter proposes an empirically oriented analysis of the memetic production on Instagram. Defined as multimodal cultural artifacts, combining visual and textual material to convey humoristic messages, internet memes proliferate across the web, spawning new popular formats and layouts. However, many scholars still rely on outdated conceptualisat...

DANKMEMES is a shared task proposed for the 2020 EVALITA campaign, focusing on the automatic classification of Internet memes. Providing a corpus of 2.361 memes on the 2019 Italian Government Crisis, DANKMEMES features three tasks: A) Meme Detection, B) Hate Speech Identification, and C) Event Clustering. Overall, 5 groups took part in the first ta...

Il lavoro si propone di illustrare l’importanza che l’incontro con il teatro yiddish ebbe nella vita e nella produzione letteraria di Franz Kafka. L’elaborato si articola in tre capitoli. Il primo capitolo affronta la questione ebraica, ovvero il modo in cui Kafka si pone nei confronti della cultura ebraica e come egli viva la propria ebraicità, an...