İdil Galip presented a look into her work researching memes. In the event she shared her data collection process: how she finds, collects, codes and analyses internet memes and other such cultural artefacts. Throughout the event, she scrolled, tapped, clicked and explored a variety of digital ephemera.

Biography

İdil Galip holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She primarily writes about the creative work of meme-making and the platformisation of culture through theoretical interventions and ethnographic methods. She also runs the Meme Studies Research Network, which is an interdisciplinary network for people who study memes.