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This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on
comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga,
graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial,
mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and
methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the
interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional
actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency
is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal
texts. In the same manner, "authorship" can be understood as the
attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and
roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors,
as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as
publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this
perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and
institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception
(appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation
and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization
and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.
Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological
tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters
across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and
even non-narrative or non-fictional media. This highly innovative
work offers new perspectives on how to interrelate production
discourses, media texts, and reception discourses, and how to
select a suitable research corpus for the discussion of characters
whose serial appearances stretch across years, decades, or even
centuries. Each chapter starts from a different notion of how
fictional characters can be considered, tracing character theories
and models to approach character representations from perspectives
developed in various disciplines and fields. This book will enable
graduate students and scholars of transmedia studies, film,
television, comics studies, video game studies, popular culture
studies, fandom studies, narratology, and creative industries to
conduct comprehensive, media-conscious analyses of characters
across a variety of media.
This volume investigates the perception of threat, with particular
regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of
media. With a focus on the profound impact of the terrorist attacks
on September 11, 2001 on the US-American political, social, and
cultural order, the chapters reach from the early days after the
attacks up to the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. An
international team of contributors analyze how the perceived
threats and their subsequent representations changed during this
period and what part different forms of media - media institutions,
media technologies, and media formats - played within these
transformations. Media theoretical perspectives are thus combined
with historical approaches to examine the "re-ordering" of the
nation, the state, and society proposed in an increasingly
converging, multimodal, and networked media environment. This
book's focus on the interrelation between Media Studies, Cultural
Studies, and American Studies makes it an indispensable landmark
for fields such as Historical Research, Media Theory, Narratology,
and Popular Culture Studies.
This volume investigates the perception of threat, with particular
regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of
media. With a focus on the profound impact of the terrorist attacks
on September 11, 2001 on the US-American political, social, and
cultural order, the chapters reach from the early days after the
attacks up to the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. An
international team of contributors analyze how the perceived
threats and their subsequent representations changed during this
period and what part different forms of media - media institutions,
media technologies, and media formats - played within these
transformations. Media theoretical perspectives are thus combined
with historical approaches to examine the "re-ordering" of the
nation, the state, and society proposed in an increasingly
converging, multimodal, and networked media environment. This
book's focus on the interrelation between Media Studies, Cultural
Studies, and American Studies makes it an indispensable landmark
for fields such as Historical Research, Media Theory, Narratology,
and Popular Culture Studies.
This collection offers a comprehensive treatment of emoticons,
kaomoji, and emoji, examining these digital pictograms and
ideograms from a range of perspectives to comprehend their
increasing role in the transformation of communication in the
digital age. Featuring a detailed introduction and eleven
contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, the
volume begins by outlining the history and development of the
field, situating emoticons, kaomoji, and emoji - expressing a
variety of moods and emotional states, facial expressions, as well
as all kinds of everyday objects- as both a topic of global
relevance but also within multimodal, semiotic, picture
theoretical, cultural and linguistic research. The book shows how
the interplay of these systems with text can alter and shape the
meaning and content of messaging and examines how this manifests
itself through different lenses, including the communicative,
socio-political, aesthetic, and cross-cultural. Making the case for
further study on emoticons, kaomoji, and emoji and their impact on
digital communication, this book is key reading for students and
scholars in sociolinguistics, media studies, Japanese studies, and
language and communication.
This collection offers a comprehensive treatment of emoticons,
kaomoji, and emoji, examining these digital pictograms and
ideograms from a range of perspectives to comprehend their
increasing role in the transformation of communication in the
digital age. Featuring a detailed introduction and eleven
contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, the
volume begins by outlining the history and development of the
field, situating emoticons, kaomoji, and emoji - expressing a
variety of moods and emotional states, facial expressions, as well
as all kinds of everyday objects- as both a topic of global
relevance but also within multimodal, semiotic, picture
theoretical, cultural and linguistic research. The book shows how
the interplay of these systems with text can alter and shape the
meaning and content of messaging and examines how this manifests
itself through different lenses, including the communicative,
socio-political, aesthetic, and cross-cultural. Making the case for
further study on emoticons, kaomoji, and emoji and their impact on
digital communication, this book is key reading for students and
scholars in sociolinguistics, media studies, Japanese studies, and
language and communication.
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Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis - The Society of Signs (German, English, Paperback)
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