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
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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) 🧵

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...

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…

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

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 🧵