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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:STeMS Speaker Series | Viral: Metaphor\, Narrative\, Music
DESCRIPTION:Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic\, “going viral” had nonetheless become commonplace—the epidemiological metaphor characterizing an increasingly-familiar trajectory of explosive circulation\, remix\, and reportage expanding from individual nodes of audiovisual content online. This presentation briefly historicizes and contextualizes the contagious concept\, before suggesting how “virality”—as aesthetic repertoire\, as popular narrative\, as social logic made concrescent in platform architectures—might also be understood as a form of musicality.\n\nI argue that participation in the production\, watching\, listening to\, circulating\, or sharing of “viral” digital internet objects has constituted a significant site of 21st-century musical practice. And across the 21st century\, digital platforms have adapted to facilitate this viral musicality\, using music’s positive capacities—aesthetic pleasure\, communal participation\, social connectivity—to enable corporate profit-making\, corral attention\, and incentivize acceptance of increasing technocapital enclosure of the internet and everyday life.\n\nPaula Clare Harper\, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago\, is a musicologist who researches music\, sound\, and the internet. She is interested in putting digital ephemera and oddities into broader context\, in hearing the musicality of online meme cultures\, and in tracking music’s creation and circulation across digital platforms and communities. Her current book projects include Viral Musicking and the Rise of Noisy Platforms\, and the co-edited collection Taylor Swift: The Star\, The Songs\, The Fans.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126264
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Culture,Digital Studies,Science\, Technology\, And Society Program
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20241003T131259
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A Conversation with NYT Technology Reporter Kashmir Hill
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an engaging conversation with New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill and Shobita Parthasarathy\, Faculty Director of the Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy (STPP) Program. Our speakers will explore the intersection of technology and privacy\, addressing some of today's most salient issues.Following the talk\, Kashmir Hill will be available for a book signing of \"Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It\".
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127384
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:stpp,Wallace House
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1120
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