OBZALVATION
OBZALVATION is a fake research essay about the images used in social media, to help express uploader's emotion. Especially young internet users enjoy using the funny images when they upload a post on SNS. These funny images are called "Zal(짤)" in Korean, topic of this book. Zal is similar to meme - captioned photos that are intended to be funny, often as a way to publicly ridicule human behavior.(https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-meme-2483702)
The title OBZALVATION is a mixed word “observation” and “zal”. This research essay is an admixture of truth and falsehood. The contents are a kind of fake documentary. It is started with definition and history of zal. Plus, it talks about some bright and dark sides of zal. For example, it contains copyright issues about zal in various media.
Work in the second half of 2016.
