Topic: The Scholarly Journal for Studying Photos of Mark Zuckerberg put out its first edition this week
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyjznb/the-scholarly-journal-for-studying-photos-of-mark-zuckerbergMark Zuckerberg has changed the way that over a quarter of the world’s humans see things. Viewing pictures posted on Facebook is often the first way we learn what a friend’s new baby looks like, or what hair color an ex's latest partner has. But a new academic journal aims not to explore the way we see each other on Facebook, but the way we see Zuckerberg himself.
The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg is dedicated to “to unpacking specific visual depictions of Mark Zuckerberg in mass media, and linking them to broader academic and critical discourse,” according to a blog post calling for submissions written by Tim Hwang, the publication’s founder and editor.
The project started when Hwang was talking to a friend, and discovered that they both collected pictures of Zuckerberg. “We were showing off and trading our Zucks, we were collecting rare Zucks,” Hwang explained. “He has this weird quality where he ends up in scenes that are just visually strange.”
On its face, the journal might seem impossibly niche, or at the very least a difficult feat to create. Is there really enough material about Mark Zuckerberg iconography to produce a dedicated journal on the topic? The inaugural edition of the publication, which was released Monday, proves that there is: It includes six essays written by a diverse group of academics, like science historian Melissa Lo and media scholar Ethan Zuckerman.
“I was very surprised,” Hwang told me over the phone. “When we initially did this call for papers I thought there was going to be like one or two people who thought this was interesting.” Hwang ended up receiving close to 100 submissions, he told me.
http://zuckerbergreview.com/The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg is dedicated to “to unpacking specific visual depictions of Mark Zuckerberg in mass media, and linking them to broader academic and critical discourse,” according to a blog post calling for submissions written by Tim Hwang, the publication’s founder and editor.
The project started when Hwang was talking to a friend, and discovered that they both collected pictures of Zuckerberg. “We were showing off and trading our Zucks, we were collecting rare Zucks,” Hwang explained. “He has this weird quality where he ends up in scenes that are just visually strange.”
On its face, the journal might seem impossibly niche, or at the very least a difficult feat to create. Is there really enough material about Mark Zuckerberg iconography to produce a dedicated journal on the topic? The inaugural edition of the publication, which was released Monday, proves that there is: It includes six essays written by a diverse group of academics, like science historian Melissa Lo and media scholar Ethan Zuckerman.
“I was very surprised,” Hwang told me over the phone. “When we initially did this call for papers I thought there was going to be like one or two people who thought this was interesting.” Hwang ended up receiving close to 100 submissions, he told me.
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