The trial lecture lasts from 10:00-10:45, and the title will be announced.
The candidate will defend her thesis at 12:00.
The ordinary opponents are:
- First opponent: Professor Niels Penke, University of Siegen
- Second opponent: Professor Korljka Golub, University of Linné
- Third opponent: Associate Professor Marit Kristine Ådland, Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science, OsloMet
The head of the public defence is Vice Dean Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, Faculty of Social Sciences, OsloMet.
The supervisor is Associate Professor Åse Kristine Tveit, OsloMet.
The co-supervisor is Professor Hans Kristina Rustad, University of Oslo.
Summary
This dissertation investigates instapoetry, a cultural phenomenon that merges poetry with the digital social media platform, Instagram. The study uses a mixed-methods digital humanities approach to understand instapoetry as a post-digital cultural phenomenon. It explores how instapoetry is interrelated and interacts with the platform's infrastructure and the media ecologies.
By analyzing approximately 35,000 Instagram posts and their metadata, the study provides key insights into the distribution process and genre of instapoetry, notably the instalyric - a lyric made for the repetition activated by Instagram. The dissertation also examines the platform's influence on curation, canonization, and access to data. Furthermore, it scrutinizes the role of instapoets and their relationships with the platform and the audience. The dissertation concludes that instapoetry represents a specific articulation of the post-digital as platformized pop poetry.
