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<b><em>Percorsi linguistici e semiotici: Critical Multimodal Analysis of Digital Discourse</em></b>
No full textThe language section of LEA - edited by Ilaria Moschini - is dedicated to the Critical Multimodal Analysis of Digital Discourse, an approach that encompasses the linguistic and semiotic detailed investigation of texts within a socio-cultural perspective. It features an interview with Professor Theo van Leeuwen by Ilaria Moschini and four essays: “Retwitting, reposting, repinning; reshaping identities online: Towards a social semiotic multimodal analysis of digital remediation” by Elisabetta Adami; “Multimodal aspects of corporate social responsibility communication” by Carmen Daniela Maier; “Pervasive Technologies and the Paradoxes of Multimodal Digital Communication” by Sandra Petroni and “Can the powerless speak? Linguistic and multimodal corporate media manipulation in digital environments: the case of Malala Yousafzai” by Maria Grazia Sindoni. </p
Making Science Easier to Access: Investigating Academic Social Networks as "Composites of Connotations"
No full textIn today’s ‘Internet galaxy’ (Castells 2001), multimodal resources have increasingly shaped new communicative environments where scholars are required both to explore new ways of disseminating expert scientific knowledge to peers, and “translate” (Gotti 2013) this knowledge into more comprehensible language at the didactic and popular levels. A significant example is the partnership between Research Gate, among the most popular academic social networks, and the Breakthrough Prize, the world’s largest monetary science prize which honours top scientists, even very young ones. Laureates attend a televised award ceremony, designed to celebrate, and promote their achievements and inspire the next generation. These ceremonies are analysed within an MDA framework based on social semiotics (Iedema 2011). More specifically, my investigation includes ‘resemiotization’ Iedema 2003; O’Halloran, Tan and Wignell 2016) and ‘composites of connotations’ (Leeuwen 2009), where the former is used to discuss the continuous shifting from different contexts, and the latter is interpreted as a way to understand the spectacularisation of science featured in BP. My investigation intends to demonstrate that in BP events many different strategies and techniques combine and result in the ‘marketisation’ (Fairclough 1994) or ‘promotionalisation’ (Bhatia 2002) of scientific discourse and to show how science can be ‘popularized’ (Hyland 2010) in a new, attractive way through the potential of visual and aural media
Popularizing scientific knowledge for children: a multimodal perspective
No full textThe chapter presents an exploratory study designed to map the contribution of educational hypermedia resources that popularize and disseminate specialized knowledge for children. It examines the text-image relations on the ‘Weather and Climate’ web page of the NASA’s Climate Kids website and considers its potential to popularize science for children. The web page under investigation is approached taking into account Kress and van Leeuwen’s grammar of visual design (2020) and Unsworth’s (2006) categorization of logico-semantic image-text relations. The study provides insights into how a scientific organization like NASA speaks to children by blending verbal and visual modes to give them real examples of scientific evidence of the changes happening on the planet
Percorsi linguistici e semiotici: Critical Multimodal Analysis of Digital Discourse
No full textThe language section of LEA - edited by Ilaria Moschini - is dedicated to the Critical Multimodal Analysis of Digital Discourse, an approach that encompasses the linguistic and semiotic detailed investigation of texts within a socio-cultural perspective. It features an interview with Professor Theo van Leeuwen by Ilaria Moschini and four essays: “Retwitting, reposting, repinning; reshaping identities online: Towards a social semiotic multimodal analysis of digital remediation” by Elisabetta Adami; “Multimodal aspects of corporate social responsibility communication” by Carmen Daniela Maier; “Pervasive Technologies and the Paradoxes of Multimodal Digital Communication” by Sandra Petroni and “Can the powerless speak? Linguistic and multimodal corporate media manipulation in digital environments: the case of Malala Yousafzai” by Maria Grazia Sindoni.
Book of Abstracts, International Conference "Approaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices"
No full textMultimodal digital communication is the main theme of this conference meant to attract multidisciplinary research on a wide range of issues from teaching and learning to analysing multimodal digital data appearing in multiple communication arenas.
a-mode.eumade4ll.eu
Keynote speakers:
Marina Bondi
Carey Jewitt
Rodney Jones
Gunther Kress and Jeff Bezemer
David Machin
Theo van Leeuwen
A-MODE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Elisabetta Adami – University of Leeds, UK
Cristina Arizzi – University of Messina, Italy
Styliani Karatza – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece, and University of Leeds, UK
Ivana Marenzi – L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Ilaria Moschini – University of Florence, Italy
Sandra Petroni – University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy
Marc Rocca – Rocca Creative Thinking Limited, UK
Maria Grazia Sindoni – University of Messina, Ital
Editorial
No full textLanguage and Discourse in Social Media: New Challenges, New Approaches.
by Massimiliano Demata, Dermot Heaney and Susan C. Herring
TEXTS BY: Michael S. Boyd, Paola Catenaccio, Michelangelo Conoscenti, Giuliana Elena Garzone, Ilaria Moschini, Anna Franca Plastina, Alessandra Rizzo, Marianna Lya Zumm
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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