Text as Image in the Digital Age: A Formalist Reading of Polyvore Sets.

Polyvore.com is a platform where users are encouraged to mix and match images gleaned on the Internet. Even though Polyvore offers a standard writing tool as part of its interface, most occurrences of the written word in the collages stem from magazine pages, books, pièces of word art, or even digit...

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Publicado en:Word & Image Interactions Vol. 8; pp. 243 - 258
Autor principal: Bem, Caroline
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Brill / Rodopi 2015
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