Fatima Aziz
Assistant Professor
- Department: Communication, Media and Culture
- Graduate Program(s): Global Communications
Aziz is a scholar in New Media and Digital Visual Cultures. Her current research involves examining听Visual generative Media and Text-to-Image models used in Visual AI tools. She obtained her PhD in Visual Cultures from the 脡coles des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales. Her dissertation examined the processes of representing and interpreting identities听on social network sites. She conducted a preliminary study of the processes of fame and influence in her Master鈥檚 degree in Information and Communication Sciences from the Paris-Universit茅.
Education/Degrees
脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL/EHESS), Paris, France听
Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Cultures, 2023听
Dissertation: Practices of interpretation. The staged self on Social Network Sites听
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Universit茅 Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La D茅fense, France听
Master of Arts (Master Recherche) in Information and Communication Sciences, 2008 Master鈥檚 Thesis: Les Plateformes Visuelles et le Ph茅nom猫ne de C茅l茅brit茅. Une 脡tude de cas sur Flickr et YouTube听听
Publications
Aziz, F. (2021). Shamelessly cute. Understanding gender ambiguous identity performances via 鈥淭he Desi Bombshell鈥� Snapchat video selfies. First Monday.
Aziz, F. (2018). Performing as a Transgressive Authentic Microcelebrity'. Microcelebrity Around the Globe. Emerald Publishing Limited, 131-143.
Aziz, F. (2017). Performing citizenship: Freedom march selfies by Pakistani instagrammers. In Selfie Citizenship (pp. 21-28). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Aziz, F. (2015). Personal images in Social Networks: A case study on Facebook. In Giovanni B. Artieri (ed.), Gli effeti sociali del web. Forme della communicazione e metodologie della ricerca online, FrancoAngeli.
Aziz, F. (2014). Transactions visuelles. Facebook, ressource de la rencontre amoureuse. E虂tudes photographiques, (31).
Aziz, F. (2012). Memes and the profile avatar: online rituals of solidarity and activism. Culture Visuelle.
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Conferences & Lectures
芦听Engaging with the war in Gaza on TikTok and Instagram听: affective economies in the algorithmic mdiation of war听禄 at the EASST-4S,16-19 July 2024. Amsterdam.
芦 Visual Culture of War in the Social Media Era听禄 at the International Communication Association (ICA) pre-conference, 25 May 2023 in Toronto, Canada.
鈥淚maginaries of contemporary conflicts: Engaging with the War in Ukraine on TikTok鈥�. The Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change (MCGC) organized by Jayson Harsin, July 2023 at The American University of Paris.
鈥淒igital Anthropology and Ethics of Online Data. A case study of Aylan Kurdi on social media鈥�. Civic Media Lab. Graduate Seminar series organized by Christy Shields, November 2019 at The American University of Paris.听听听/news-events/event/2019-11-13/digital-anthropology-and-ethics-online- data
鈥淧articipatory Politics and Digital Ethnography. Methodological Challenges and opportunities for publics, and ethnographers,鈥� Civic Media Lab. Graduate Seminar series and workshops organized by Waddick Doyle, May 2018 at The American University of Paris.
鈥淟a haine sur les pages communautaires d鈥橣acebook. Une 茅tude de cas du soutient au bijoutier de Nice, 鈥� Culture Visuelle, Research Seminar organized by Andr茅 Gunthert, November 2014 at 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
鈥淭he Global Selfie and its borders鈥�, International Selfie Research Network, Association of Internet Researchers, Annual Conference (AoIR), 2014, Daegu, South Korea.
鈥淕estion num茅rique de deuil. 脡tude de cas sur Facebook,鈥� Culture Visuelle, Research Seminar organized by Andr茅 Gunthert, 2013 at 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
鈥淏eyond Photography: Appropriation of context on Facebook,鈥� Crossroads Conference, 2012 at Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
鈥淲e are the 99% or a multifaceted identity,鈥� 2012. International Doctoral Conference at Media London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK.
鈥淧ersonal Images in Social Networks: A case study on Facebook,鈥� International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA), 2010, Bologna, Italy.
Affiliations
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change (MCGC), since 2024
Faculty Affiliate, Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL/EHESS), since 2023
Member of the Editorial Committee for the French Social Science Blog 芦听Culture Visuelle听禄 with Andr茅 Gunthert, EHESS, 2010 鈥� 2014
Member of Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2014 鈥� 2015
Research Areas
Her research is based in Visual Generative media, Digital Visual Cultures, Visuality, Text-to-Image models, Algorithmic identity.