Marta Zarzycka

Marta Zarzycka is a researcher studying User Experience for a tech company in Austin, Texas, and formerly an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her book Gendered Tropes in War Photography: Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers, was published by Routledge in 2016.

Filtering Out: Instagram and the Dangerous Pull of Nostalgia

Images engage and trigger us daily on social media feeds, spanning the mundane and the extraordinary. Four hundred hours of …

Mar 20

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Marta Zarzycka

Misogyny Online: Death by a Thousand Cuts

One year into the Trump administration, malice and fear mongering have become normalized rhetoric, facilitating the jump to full-on hate …

Feb 18

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Marta Zarzycka

Comic Relief? The Puzzling Function of Political Humor Online

The most terrifying movie I have ever seen, no doubt, was Funny Games, written and directed by Michael Haneke. In …

Oct 9

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Marta Zarzycka

Los Angeles Review of Books

Joy Trumps Fear?: How Photographs Perpetuate Feelings in Political Dissent

Jun 2