Fatima Aziz
Assistant Professor
- Department: Communication, Media and Culture
- Graduate Program(s): Global Communications
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Aziz is a scholar in New Media and Digital Visual Cultures. Her current research involves examining Visual generative Media and Text-to-Image models used in Visual AI tools. She obtained her PhD in Visual Cultures from the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Her dissertation examined the processes of representing and interpreting identities on social network sites. She conducted a preliminary study of the processes of fame and influence in her Master’s degree in Information and Communication Sciences from the Paris-Université.
Education/Degrees
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL/EHESS), Paris, France
Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Cultures, 2023
Dissertation: Practices of interpretation. The staged self on Social Network Sites
Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La Défense, France
Master of Arts (Master Recherche) in Information and Communication Sciences, 2008 Master’s Thesis: Les Plateformes Visuelles et le Phénomène de Célébrité. Une Étude de cas sur Flickr et YouTube
Publications
Aziz, F. (2021). Shamelessly cute. Understanding gender ambiguous identity performances via “The Desi Bombshell” 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. Études photographiques, (31).
Aziz, F. (2012). Memes and the profile avatar: online rituals of solidarity and activism. Culture Visuelle.
Conferences & Lectures
« Engaging with the war in Gaza on TikTok and Instagram : affective economies in the algorithmic mdiation of war » at the EASST-4S,16-19 July 2024. Amsterdam.
« Visual Culture of War in the Social Media Era » at the International Communication Association (ICA) pre-conference, 25 May 2023 in Toronto, Canada.
“Imaginaries of contemporary conflicts: Engaging with the War in Ukraine on TikTok”. The Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change (MCGC) organized by Jayson Harsin, July 2023 at The American University of Paris.
“Digital Anthropology and Ethics of Online Data. A case study of Aylan Kurdi on social media”. Civic Media Lab. Graduate Seminar series organized by Christy Shields, November 2019 at The American University of Paris. https://www.aup.edu/news-events/event/2019-11-13/digital-anthropology-and-ethics-online- data
“Participatory Politics and Digital Ethnography. Methodological Challenges and opportunities for publics, and ethnographers,” Civic Media Lab. Graduate Seminar series and workshops organized by Waddick Doyle, May 2018 at The American University of Paris.
“La haine sur les pages communautaires d’Facebook. Une étude de cas du soutient au bijoutier de Nice, ” Culture Visuelle, Research Seminar organized by André Gunthert, November 2014 at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
“The Global Selfie and its borders”, International Selfie Research Network, Association of Internet Researchers, Annual Conference (AoIR), 2014, Daegu, South Korea.
“Gestion numérique de deuil. Étude de cas sur Facebook,” Culture Visuelle, Research Seminar organized by André Gunthert, 2013 at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
“Beyond Photography: Appropriation of context on Facebook,” Crossroads Conference, 2012 at Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
“We are the 99% or a multifaceted identity,” 2012. International Doctoral Conference at Media London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK.
“Personal Images in Social Networks: A case study on Facebook,” 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 « Culture Visuelle » with André Gunthert, EHESS, 2010 – 2014
Member of Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2014 – 2015
Research Areas
Her research is based in Visual Generative media, Digital Visual Cultures, Visuality, Text-to-Image models, Algorithmic identity.