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David Swan (ÌÇÐÄTV): ‘Crisis in the Eastern Channel - The Transformation in Coinage wrought by Caesar’ 

Denise Wilding (ÌÇÐÄTV): ‘Local worlds on Local Tokens? The Roman Lead Tokens of Gaul and Egypt as Media of Local Expression’ 

Getting Abroad Fair for all first- and second-year SMLC students. First year talk, 3 - 4pm MS.05; second-year talks 4 - 5pm, MS.03 and MS.05; the chance to visit the fair and talk to students: 4 - 6pm. For more information see our poster.

In the 1950s, the French philosopher, critic, and semiotician Roland Barthes wrote a series of texts which were published subsequently as a collection known as ‘Mythologies’ (1957), which constitute a dissection of popular culture from 1950s France. Barthes used theories embraced in linguistics and his approach has been replicated over the years, but in this paper, I argue that the participatory web, and in particular social network services (SNS), provide us with a perspective to rethink myth-making by non-elites, thanks to the networked language and semiotic practices of subscribers to a wide range of social networks. In other words, we look at how so-called ordinary citizens create a new set of myths by analysing the discursive presentations of a range of ‘things’ that individuals draw on at Orly, and how they are explicitly made to carry meaning, according to the captions, hashtags, and emoticons given by the original poster.

Speaker: Marianna Deganutti (University of Bath)