[WHAT'S HAPPENING?] I'M FEELING EMOTIONAL. (1st June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Battle, Christina
• Is Part Of: Public. Volume 30:Number 59(2019)
• Page Start: 88
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2019-06-01
• Subjects: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Periodicals; Art -- Exhibitions -- Periodicals; Aesthetics -- Periodicals; Art -- Periodicals; 705
• DOI: 10.1386/public.30.59.88_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0845-4450

Abstract

[What's Happening?] I'm feeling emotionallooks to how animated GIFS, used as emotional aides in online conversation, might be changing the ways that we relate. While the reliance on GIFs as stand-ins for emotional expressions may be a way to build the social back into online communication and a reaffirmation of the role of emotion in society as an important and even critical requirement; the essay considers how the over representation of fictional characters, animals, and cultural stereotypes selected by algorithms may be shifting culture in ways we haven't yet realized.