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Working within the scope of Images that can be found online Eleana Louka suggests links and re-establishes entities that reflect on the potential structures of photographic meaning within a medium that seems to evade our scrutiny and understanding. Not only does the digital resist traditional methodology of experimentation and observation, it also boasts vast capacities of reproduction, scaling, archiving, transmission, and manipulation, leading to such a proliferation of imagery production, as to make the visual landscape feel quite unmanageable. Adding to that, the loose, anarchist structure of the Internet as the primary digital platform, poses the challenges and potentiality of democratization. Can it in fact promote and support global-scale communication and the new model of a pluralist democracy within a context of crisis, returning nationalism and growing social tension? Trying to reconsider the doctrines of Luhmann within the broader theory of Mediology, the Louka explores the potential of interactivity, the inherited vocabulary of Modernism and the tradition of the avant-guard.