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 examiningÌęVisual generative Media and Text-to-Image models used in Visual AI tools. She obtained her PhD in Visual Cultures from the Ăcoles des Hautes Ătudes en Sciences Sociales. Her dissertation examined the processes of representing and interpreting identitiesÌęon social network sites. She conducted a preliminary study of the processes of fame and influence in her Masterâs degree in Information and Communication Sciences from the Paris-UniversitĂ©.
Education/Degrees
Ăcole des Hautes Ătudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL/EHESS), Paris, FranceÌę
Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Cultures, 2023Ìę
Dissertation: Practices of interpretation. The staged self on Social Network SitesÌę
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UniversitĂ© Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La DĂ©fense, FranceÌę
Master of Arts (Master Recherche) in Information and Communication Sciences, 2008 Masterâs Thesis: Les Plateformes Visuelles et le PhĂ©nomĂšne de CĂ©lĂ©britĂ©. Une Ătude de cas sur Flickr et YouTubeÌęÌę
Publications
Aziz, F. (2021). Shamelessly cute. Understanding gender ambiguous identity performances via âThe Desi Bombshellâ 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. EÌtudes photographiques, (31).
Aziz, F. (2012). Memes and the profile avatar: online rituals of solidarity and activism. Culture Visuelle.
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Conferences & Lectures
«ÌęEngaging with the war in Gaza on TikTok and InstagramÌę: affective economies in the algorithmic mdiation of warÌę» at the EASST-4S,16-19 July 2024. Amsterdam.
« Visual Culture of War in the Social Media EraÌę» at the International Communication Association (ICA) pre-conference, 25 May 2023 in Toronto, Canada.
âImaginaries of contemporary conflicts: Engaging with the War in Ukraine on TikTokâ. The Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change (MCGC) organized by Jayson Harsin, July 2023 at The American University of Paris.
âDigital Anthropology and Ethics of Online Data. A case study of Aylan Kurdi on social mediaâ. Civic Media Lab. Graduate Seminar series organized by Christy Shields, November 2019 at The American University of Paris.ÌęÌęÌę/news-events/event/2019-11-13/digital-anthropology-and-ethics-online- data
âParticipatory Politics and Digital Ethnography. Methodological Challenges and opportunities for publics, and ethnographers,â Civic Media Lab. Graduate Seminar series and workshops organized by Waddick Doyle, May 2018 at The American University of Paris.
âLa haine sur les pages communautaires dâFacebook. Une Ă©tude de cas du soutient au bijoutier de Nice, â Culture Visuelle, Research Seminar organized by AndrĂ© Gunthert, November 2014 at Ăcole des Hautes Ătudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
âThe Global Selfie and its bordersâ, International Selfie Research Network, Association of Internet Researchers, Annual Conference (AoIR), 2014, Daegu, South Korea.
âGestion numĂ©rique de deuil. Ătude de cas sur Facebook,â Culture Visuelle, Research Seminar organized by AndrĂ© Gunthert, 2013 at Ăcole des Hautes Ătudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
âBeyond Photography: Appropriation of context on Facebook,â Crossroads Conference, 2012 at Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
âWe are the 99% or a multifaceted identity,â 2012. International Doctoral Conference at Media London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK.
âPersonal Images in Social Networks: A case study on Facebook,â 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 «ÌęCulture VisuelleÌę» with AndrĂ© Gunthert, EHESS, 2010 â 2014
Member of Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2014 â 2015
Research Areas
Her research is based in Visual Generative media, Digital Visual Cultures, Visuality, Text-to-Image models, Algorithmic identity.