Closing remarks by Valérie Schafer. She created several memes with generative AI to thank the participants.

End of #HIVI conference, good bye, Luxembourg.

https://hivi.uni.lu/2024/06/25/hivi-final-conference-online-virality-past-present-future/

We could use memes for good and useful action, not just for fun and right-wing propaganda.

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Chloë Arkenbout "Memes as Speculative Tools for a Future we Would Want"

https://www.tiktok.com/@nebula5366/video/7274140835208301870

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AI generated images: why do people like and forward the obviously fake images of kids building incredible sand sculptures?

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There were memes before the Internet. The analysis of a chain letter in the USA in the 19th century.

It was not a scam but a real fundraising system.

Fun fact : the number of people that you "must" relay the letter to, increased when the photocopiers became common.

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Now, the results of the workshop of meme analysis.

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.

The team notes that the supposed monster was represented as female..

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First question: "why is it useful to study online virality, after all?"

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"Virality is a good excuse to study a lot of interesting things"

Quentin Lobbé (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences – CAMS/CNRS, EHESS)

Nice visualisations.

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Alexandre Faye (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

The Buzz-f project: track virality on the BnF Web archives (experimental).

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