‘Selfies’ Under Quarantine: Exploring Networked Emotions in the Time of ‘Social Distancing’

Donatella Della Ratta

doi:10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.11

Auteurs-es

Donatella Della Ratta John Cabot University, Rome

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.11

Résumé

Cet essai se concentre sur l’auto-ethnographie et l’auto-fiction comme outils de réflexion sur les façons dont les identités en réseau sont remodelées et reconfigurées dans le contexte d’une pandémie mondiale où les relations sociales, la vie familiale, les routines de travail et les processus d’apprentissage migrent de plus en plus vers le domaine en ligne. L’article s’appuie sur l’expérience d’une classe de premier cycle qui a contribué collectivement à la série de blogs “Selfies Under Quarantine” (Selfies en quarantaine) pendant le premier verrouillage sévère en mars 2020. Il aborde la question des méthodes et suggère de considérer le “brouillon” comme une esthétique et une éthique pour naviguer dans le contexte actuel de crise.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Donatella Della Ratta, John Cabot University, Rome

Donatella Della Ratta Donatella Della Ratta est une ethnographe des médias, écrivaine, artiste et conservatrice spécialisée dans les médias numériques et les technologies en réseau, et plus particulièrement dans le monde arabe. Elle est professeure associée de communications et d'études des médias à l'université John Cabot de Rome. Donatella est titulaire d'un doctorat de l'université de Copenhague et a été affiliée au Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society de l'université de Harvard. Elle a géré la communauté arabophone pour l'organisation internationale Creative Commons de 2007 à 2013. En 2012, elle a cofondé le site web SyriaUntold, lauréat du prix des communautés numériques à Ars Electronica 2014. Elle a été commissaire de plusieurs expositions d'art internationales et de programmes cinématographiques sur la Syrie. Elle est auteur et éditrice d'un large éventail de livres et d'essais sur les médias arabes et les technologies en réseau. Shooting a Revolution : Visual Media and Warfare in Syria (Pluto Press, 2018) est sa dernière monographie. Shot Theory est son essai le plus récent..

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