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Nigeria has one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa in which digital subjects deconstruct state power through performed popular culture. Cultural netizenship, what James Y\u00e9k\u00fa describes elsewhere as the platformization of African popular culture (Y\u00e9k\u00fa 2022), is shaped largely by memes, one of the most immediate and condensed modes of cultural critiques and political commentary on social media. In this seminar, he lingers\u00a0 on the concept of cultural netizenship, unpacking Nigerian meme culture through the intermedial connections between Old Nollywood images and social media memes. Emphasizing the logic of memeification that structures the relations between filmic and memetic texts and foregrounding the remix and adaptative strategies that inform their sonic and visual interconnections, he analyzes how the rhetorical gestures of memes deconstruct officialdom and consolidate\u00a0Nollywood\u2019s globalism. \u00a0The seminar concludes by focusing on the sound of memes, asking how sonic memes in particular ambivalently summon different kinds of affects. The stakes of this approach are marked by the increasing digital reconfigurations of African popular aesthetics more broadly.<\/p>\n

James Y\u00e9k\u00fa teaches in the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas where he leads various initiatives in African digital humanities. He is the author of\u00a0Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria, and the collection of poems,\u00a0Where the Baedeker Leads. He is the co-editor of\u00a0S\u00f2r\u00f2s\u00f3ke.\u00a0An #endsars anthology, which articulates a poetics of resistance. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow in the Department of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University of Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria has one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa in which digital subjects deconstruct state power through performed popular culture. Cultural netizenship, what James Y\u00e9k\u00fa describes elsewhere as the platformization of African popular culture (Y\u00e9k\u00fa 2022), is shaped largely by memes, one of the most immediate and condensed modes of cultural critiques and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":160549,"template":"","class_list":["post-160548","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-seminar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAfrica Seminar 'The Sound of Memes: Cultural Netizenship and The Intermediality of the Memesphere'<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/event\/africa-seminar-the-sound-of-memes-cultural-netizenship-and-the-intermediality-of-the-memesphere\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Africa Seminar 'The Sound of Memes: Cultural Netizenship and The Intermediality of the Memesphere'\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria has one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa in which digital subjects deconstruct state power through performed popular culture. 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