FATIMA AZIZ
PhD candidate at École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris. Her PhD focuses on identity and sociality as co-constructed practices shaped by photographic production, sharing and interpretation across social media.
EDUCATION
- – Doctoral research in Visual Culture Studies & Social Media, EHESS, Paris, since 2010
- – M.A. Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (Internet Studies), Paris X, Nanterre, 2007 – 2008
- – M.A. French Linguistics, Lahore, Pakistan, 2000
RESEARCH AREAS
- Visual Culture Studies
- Civic Digital Media and Online Activisim
- Teen activism
- Digital Ethnography
- Social Media and Visual Cultures
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE, ACADEMIC AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
- Scientific collaborator and rapid response research publisher at Culture Visuelle, online academic blogging platform for education and research in visual culture, EHESS, since 2010
- Translator for French Photography journal Études photographiques, 2013, 2016. French to English translations available at Image Sociale
- Co-organizer of International Graduate Student Seminar : Research in Arts, (CRAL), EHESS. Track on Visual Anthropology and Visual History organized with Jonathan Larcher and Noémie Oxley, 2016
- Teaching Assistant at Inalco, Department of South East Asia, Hindi, 2014-2015. Courses taught Urdu lexicology & Speaking Comprehension.
- Co-organizer of International research network The Selfie Researchers Network with Prof. Theresa Senft (lead researcher) 2014
- Co-organizer of panel Selfies around the world : the Global selfie and its borders, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR, Daegu, 2014)
- Teaching Assistant et École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paristech, Département de Communication. 2010 – 2012. Topics taught :La retouche photo et l’image de soi, Sexting et Happy Slapping, Les politiques et les sextos
PRESENTATIONS/INTERVIEWS
- Global Communications lecture series on Civic Media, American University of Paris, 2 February, 2017. Presentation & workshop : Participatory politics and Digital Ethnography. Methodological challenges & opportunities for publics and ethnographers.
- Méthodes Visuelles et sensorielles : pratiques transdisciplinaire pour les sciences sociales, EHESS, 13 December, 2016. Case Study presented : Selfie citizenship, online ethnography of Instagram users (in French)
- France Culture, La Vie privée (3/5) : Par le trou de la serrure du web. Emission, Les Nouvelles Vagues 14/09/16, :59’
- Picturing the Social, ESRC- Funded Conference and Workshop, University of Manchester/ Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 20-21 June, 2016. Paper presented : From #Allveiled to #hijabday. A case study of visual campaigns against islamophobia in France
- Séminiaire de recherche Usages ordinaires des images, INHA, EHESS, May 2015. Paper presented : Converser en images : analyse conversationnelle sur les médias sociaux
- Séminiaire de recherche Culture Visuelle, INHA, EHESS, April, 2013. Paper presented : Gestion numérique de deuil. Étude de cas sur Facebook.
- Séminiaire de recherche Culture Visuelle, INHA, EHESS, February, 2013. Paper presented : La nuit après une rencontre. Enquête visuelle sur Facebook
- Crossroads 2012, Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle, July, 2012Paper presented : Beyond Photography : Appropriation of context on Facebook.
- London School of Economics Media and Communications PhD Symposium, London, June 2012. Paper presented : We are the 99% or a multifaceted identity
- IVSA, International Visual Sociology Association, Bologne, Italy, July, 2010. Paper presented : Personal images in Social Networks
PUBLICATIONS
« Performing Citizenship : Freedom March Selfies by Pakistani Instagrammers », in A. Kuntsman (ed.), Selfie Citizenship, Palgrave Macmilian, 2017
« 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, 2015
« Transactions visuelles : Facebook, resource de la rencontre amoureuse », Études photographiques, n°31, 2014
« Memes and the profile avatar : online rituals of solidarity and activism », Culture Visuelle, 2012.