What Do We Talk about When We Talk About Animation

What if performance is no longer the dominant trope for understanding the mediated self? What if animation is as or more important as a trope? This essay explores what questions scholars would ask if they were to begin with animation as the starting point.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ilana Gershon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115578143
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