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Vanessa Valiati

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Adriana Amaral @adriamaral.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Tá online a parte 2 do dossiê Cultura Pop, Estudos de Fãs e Indústrias Criativas que organizei junto com @simoned.bsky.social para a revista Brazilian Creative Industries Journal. Thanks @vanessavaliati.bsky.social for helping us edit it periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.p...

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Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This whole brain rot, shitposting, skibidi toilet thing reminded me that in the early 00s two types of Internet slang were massively popular in Brazil: miguxês & tiopês. Those Internet vernaculars were criticised despite functioning as identitary and community markers (even if through irony) 🧵

Miguxes tool, which translated Português into Miguxes

Orkut community “tiopes - the revolution”

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Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If you’re curious (and can read in Portuguese!) here’s the early version of the paper (I don’t seem to find the published book chapter?!): lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/ha...

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Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

proper ‘social medium’ (we didn’t call it platform!) for many of them. I wonder what the results would be if we decided to do a similar study now about the ‘death’ of Twitter – and whether any nostalgic appreciation has been too severely tainted by the enshittification since the rebranding to X…

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Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

how the nostalgic affective attachments publicly manifested by people were not restricted to the affordances, the communities, and the memes typical of that sociotechnical environment; they were also highlighting the foundational role that site had played in people’s digital lives, being the first

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Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Almost 10 years ago, @aleprimo.bsky.social, Vanessa Valiati, Laura Barros and I wrote a paper about how Brazilian users were grieving the recently-discontinued social network site orkut (iykyk) despite having largely migrated to Facebook by then. We conducted a content analysis of Tweets showing 🧵

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