RESEARCH OUTPUT

Giolo, G. (2025). Cultural transgressions and media contestation: a qualitative study of the tradwife trend in Dutch media. Popular Communication, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2025.2560859

Giolo, G. & Paschos, Y. (2025). Mapping the Urban Unconscious: Towards a hybrid application of deep mapping and sentiment analysis. In: Fariman, M.A., Lee, C., Hakiminejad, A., & Mehan, A. (2025) City, Public Space, and BodyThe Embodied Experience of Urban Life.

Giolo , G., Trottier, D., & Driessen, S. (2025). They Not like Us: Cultural Aggregation and Ambiguous Meaning-Making in Internet Culture. Media/Culture : a Journal of media and culture, 28(3). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3183

Giolo, G. and Kuipers, G. (2025). The humorous construction of time and meaning: Memes and temporal-sense making during the COVID-19 pandemic. Time & Society, 0(0) : DOI: 10.1177/0961463X251350931.

Giolo G., Pavlova, A., Wijngaarden, Y. and Berkers, P. (2023). Handshakes and hashtags: how changing social interactions make us feel awkward. Continuum, 37(4), 522-534.

Giolo, G. and Berghman, M. (2023). The Aesthetics of the self: The meaning-making of Internet aesthetics. First Monday, 28(3). DOI:10.5210/fm.v28i3.12723.

Marques, L. and Giolo, G. (2020). Cultural leisure in the time of COVID-19: impressions from the Netherlands. World Leisure Journal, 62(4), 344-348.

CONFERENCES AND TALKS

Giolo, G (2025). The Aesthetic Turn: Theorizing the Rising Role of Cultural Aggregation in Popular Culture. 50 Years of of Media and Communication, University of Westminster, London, England.

Giolo, G. (2024). That did not age well: Time, humor, and cancel culture [Workshop presentation]. Humor and its Political Affordances Today: From Nostalgia to Cancel Cultures. Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Giolo, G. (2024). Responsible cancellations? Understanding and Navigating Cancel Culture [Panel paper presentation]. Etmaal 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Giolo, G. (16 November 2023). Between Normals [talk]. WORM S/ash Gallery, Rotterdam.

Giolo, G & Kuipers, G. (2023). Time through The Digital Looking Glass: Exploring Temporality in Digital Humor [Paper presentation]. Cultural Sociology Club, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Giolo, G. (2022). Time in Laughter: Exploring Humor and Memory in The Digital Era [Paper presentation]. International Society for Humor Studies, University of Bologna, Bertinoro, Italy.

Kuipers, G., Boukes, M. & Giolo, G. (2022). Covido Ergo Zoom: Collective Meaning Making Through Memes and Jokes During The First Global Humor Cycle [Paper presentation]. Global Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Giolo, G. & Wijngaarden, Y. (9 November 2021).AWKWARD! [Talk]. Critical Humanities, Radboud University, Nijmegen.  

Giolo, G. & Paschos, G. (2021). Mapping the urban unconscious: Towards a hybrid application of deep mapping and sentiment analysis [Paper presentation]. City, Public Space & Body, London, Engla

MEDIA

Geurts, O. (2025, November 13). Hoe media de tradwives groot maakten. Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek. https://www.svdj.nl/nieuws/hoe-media-de-tradwives-groot-maakten/

Gingins, L. (2025, July 31)« Guava girl », « rat girl », « goblincore » ou « dark academia » : ces « aesthetics » numériques qui ont émergé sur TikTok. Le Monde. https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025/07/31/guava-girl-rat-girl-goblincore-ou-dark-academia-ces-aesthetics-numeriques-qui-ont-emerge-sur-tiktok_6625779_4408996.html

Janke, R. (2024, July 18). Aesthetic, la etiqueta que invade las redes sociales… y nadie sabe qué significa exactamente. El Mundo. https://www.elmundo.es/la-lectura/2024/07/18/6694fae5e85eced2638b458a.html

RESEARCH PRIVACY STATEMENT

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