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
Doctor of Philosophy (CRAL/EHESS)
Education/Degrees
脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL/EHESS), Paris, France听
Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Cultures, 2023听
Dissertation: Practices of interpretation. The staged self on Social Network Sites听
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Universit茅 Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La D茅fense, France听
Master of Arts (Master Recherche) in Information and Communication Sciences, 2008 Master鈥檚 Thesis: Les Plateformes Visuelles et le Ph茅nom猫ne de C茅l茅brit茅. Une 脡tude de cas sur Flickr et YouTube听听
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Kinnaird University, Department of French, Pakistan听听
Master of Arts (Ma卯trise F.L.E) in French as a Foreign Language, 2003听
Master鈥檚 Thesis: La R茅habilitation Sociale des toxicomanes 脿 Lahore 2 Kinnaird University, Pakistan Bachelor of Arts in English, Geography and French, 2000听
Publications
Aziz, F. (2021). Shamelessly cute. Understanding gender ambiguous identity performances via 鈥淭he Desi Bombshell鈥� 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. E虂tudes photographiques, (31).
Aziz, F. (2012). Memes and the profile avatar: online rituals of solidarity and activism. Culture Visuelle.
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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.