Camilla Holm Soelseth will defend her thesis for the PhD program in Library and Information Science with "Instapoetry as a post-digital phenomenon: The infrastructural effects of platformization on contemporary pop poetry".
The trial lecture lasts from 10:00-10:45, and the title is: Indexing poetry over time: A comparison of subject metadata created by information professionals, social taggers and algorithms.
The candidate will defend her thesis at 12:00.
The public defence and trial lecture will also be streamed (zoom.com).
Webinar ID: 636 0865 1017
Passcode: 0125
The ordinary opponents are:
The head of the public defence is Vice Dean Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, Faculty of Social Sciences, OsloMet.
The supervisor is Associate Professor Åse Kristine Tveit, OsloMet.
The co-supervisor is Professor Hans Kristian Rustad, University of Oslo.
The dissertation is available in The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) (nva.sikt.no).
This dissertation investigates instapoetry, a cultural phenomenon that merges poetry with the digital social media platform, Instagram. The study uses a mixed-methods digital humanities approach to understand instapoetry as a post-digital cultural phenomenon. It explores how instapoetry is interrelated and interacts with the platform's infrastructure and the media ecologies.
By analyzing approximately 35,000 Instagram posts and their metadata, the study provides key insights into the distribution process and genre of instapoetry, notably the instalyric - a lyric made for the repetition activated by Instagram. The dissertation also examines the platform's influence on curation, canonization, and access to data. Furthermore, it scrutinizes the role of instapoets and their relationships with the platform and the audience. The dissertation concludes that instapoetry represents a specific articulation of the post-digital as platformized pop poetry.