1st Edition
Mediation and Multimodal Meaning Making in Digital Environments
This collection explores the mediation of a wide range of processes, texts, and practices in contemporary digital environments through the lens of a multimodal theory of communication.
Bringing together contributions from renowned scholars in the field, the book builds on the notion that any form of digital communication inherently presents a rich combination of different semiotic modes and resources as a jumping-off point from which to critically reflect on digital mediation from three different perspectives. The first section looks at social and semiotic practices and the implications of their mediation on artistic production, cultural heritage, and commerce. The second part of the volume focuses on dynamics of awareness, cognition, and identity formation in participants to digitally-mediated communicative processes. The book’s final section considers the impact of mediation on shaping new and different types of textualities and genres in digital spaces.
The book will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers and students in multimodality, digital communication, social semiotics, and media studies.
The Digital Mediation of Knowledge, Representations and Practices through the Lenses of a Multimodal Theory of Communication
Ilaria Moschini, Maria Grazia Sindoni
Section A. The Digital Mediation of Practices
- Art as Research into Semiotic Technology. The Case of David Hockney’s Digital Art
- What Happened to the Artist? Representation and Positioning in Art Museum Websites
- "A War to End All Wars": Re-enacting and Re-embodying War Discourse. A Multimodal Analysis of Agency at WWI Galleries
- Website Interactivity as Representations of Social Actions? Developing a Social Semiotic Discourse Approach to Interaction Design
- Interrelation: Gaze and Multimodal Ensembles
- "I’m So Confused!". Social Reading Practices and Their Semiotic Affordances on Goodreads
- Interactivity and Multimodal Cohesion in Digital Fairy Tales
- A Look Back at Early Economics Blogs: a Multimodal Analysis of Indexicality and Identity Construction
- Multimodality and Genre Evolution. A Decade-by-decade Approach to Online Video Genre Analysis
- Video Abstracts: Methodological Reflections When Analyzing a Nascent Genre and its Associated Scientific Community
- Healthy Pic Hashtagging in Twitter: the Role of Infographics in #AntibioticGuardian
- Towards a Framework for Video Mediated "Cooper-action". Discourse Practices, Bonding and Distance in Synchronous and Asynchronous Digital Video Spaces
Theo van Leeuwen, Christian Mosbæk Johannessen
Jennifer Blunden
Mariavita Cambria
Søren Vigild Poulsen
Section B. Awareness, Identities and Cognition in Digital Mediation
Jarret Geenen, Jesse Pirini
Susanne Reichl, Miriam Mayrhofer and Christina Schuster
Victoria Yefymenko
Franca Poppi
Section C. The Digital Mediation of Texts and Genres
Anthony Baldry
Francesca Coccetta
Anna Franca Plastina
Maria Grazia Sindoni, Ilaria Moschini
Biography
Ilaria Moschini, PhD, is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology at the University of Florence, Italy. Her main research interests are digital media language and political discourse that she investigates adopting a critical multimodal approach.
Maria Grazia Sindoni, PhD, is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations at the University of Messina, Italy. Her main interests include multimodal discourse studies, systemic-functional grammar, applied linguistics and video-mediated communication.
“Mediation and Multimodal Meaning Making in Digital Environments offers a comprehensive and exciting multimodal exploration of how knowledge, representation and practices are digitally mediated. It maps this complex landscape through a wide range of studies by leading experts in the field and new voices within multimodality to engage with a diversity of texts (from paintings to art museum websites), genres as well as questions of how digital mediation shapes identities and cognition.” – Carey Jewitt, UCL- Institute of Education (IOE), London (UK)
“What a fantastic and timely contribution to multimodal studies! This book provides fresh and engaging perspectives on the digital mediation of knowledge, practices and genres in a wide range of areas, from artistic production and cultural heritage to commerce and healthcare.” – David Machin, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China)
