Short Video as Affective Contagion : (Un)locked WeChat Chatlogs on Viral Videos

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)687-694
Journal / PublicationVisual Studies
Volume38
Issue number3-4
Online published17 May 2022
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes

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Abstract

This visual essay is a documentation of a series of morbid short videos circulating in local Wuhan chat groups at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, attached with video screenshots and adjacent chatlogs. The data was collected during the author's home quarantine in Wuhan in early 2020. This visual essay aims at viscerally exhibiting the circulation of emotions ranging from anxiety to boredom to lethargy via group conversations surrounding these short videos. Hopefully, they can serve as an archive and a miniature of a societal meltdown that is readily forgotten. © 2022 International Visual Sociology Association

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Short Video as Affective Contagion: (Un)locked WeChat Chatlogs on Viral Videos. / ZHANG, Ge.
In: Visual Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3-4, 2023, p. 687-694.

Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review