{"product_id":"digital-icons-yasmin-ibrahim-9780367548056","title":"Digital Icons: Memes, Martyrs and Avatars","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers critical perspectives on the digital 'iconic', exploring how the notion of the iconic is re-appropriated and re-made online, and the consequences for humanity and society. Examining cross-cultural case studies of iconic images in digital spaces, the author offers original and critical analyses, theories and perspectives on the notion of the 'iconic', and on its movement, re-appropriation and meaning making on digital platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA carefully curated selection of case studies illustrates topics such as phantom memory; martyrdom; denigration and pornographic recoding; digital games as simulacra; and memes as 'artification'. Situating the notion of the iconic firmly within contemporary cultures, the author takes a thematic approach to investigate the iconic as an unstable and unfinished phenomenon online as it travels through platforms temporally and spatially.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book will be an important resource for academics and students in the areas of media and communications, digital culture, cultural studies, visual communication, visual culture, journalism studies and digital humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yasmin Ibrahim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367548054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367548056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.35d","brand":"Yasmin Ibrahim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072263188735,"sku":"9780367548056","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63421b28-9267-4adc-b317-25cb4d027ffa.jpg?v=1685440914","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digital-icons-yasmin-ibrahim-9780367548056","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}