Fatima Aziz
Assistant Professor
- Department: Communication, Media and Culture
- Graduate Program(s): Global Communications
- Office:G-3/4 floor
- Office Hours:Mondays 16:00 or by appointment
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Doctor of Philosophy (CRAL/EHESS)
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
Kinnaird University, Department of French, Pakistan
Master of Arts (Maîtrise F.L.E) in French as a Foreign Language, 2003
Master’s Thesis: La Réhabilitation Sociale des toxicomanes à Lahore 2 Kinnaird University, Pakistan Bachelor of Arts in English, Geography and French, 2000
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.
Research Areas
Her research is based in visual culture and digital ethnography, with a particular focus on social media and its impact on identity civil liberties and collective action.