What are digital media?

JA Bateman - Discourse, Context & Media, 2021 - Elsevier
This essay addresses the nature of so–called 'digital media'in a literacy context from the
perspectives of semiotics, theories of the 'medium', and computation. It argues that most …

Legitimizing video-sharing practices on local and global platforms: A multimodal analysis of menu design, folk genres and taxonomy

LT Zhang, S Zhao - Discourse & Communication, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
There have been extensive public and academic debates on the role platform algorithms
play in shaping social media (sub) cultures. Little attention, however, has been paid to how …

The many socials: how a social enterprise uses social media to communicate social capital-based social value. A case study

Q Wang, A Hallin, S Lång… - Social Enterprise …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study responds to the need in social entrepreneurship research for more
empirical studies to clarify the meaning of social value. Specially, it aims to explore the …

Stars, scores, and cheers: A social semiotic critique of “Fun” learning in commercial educational software for children

G Kvåle - Multimodal literacies across digital learning contexts, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Educational digital technologies often promise “fun” learning. This chapter uses ABC tablet
apps as a case study for a critical investigation of what ideas about literacy, learning, and fun …

Language as the tip of the iceberg? Shedding a critical light on 'hidden'discourse in digital platforms

I Moschini, MG Sindoni - Discourse, Context & Media, 2021 - Elsevier
In digital scenarios, procedural instructions are instances of a kind of discourse that is
pervasive yet little visible. These instructions define the information architectures of digital …

Mediating Wasathiyah Islamic with Da'wah in the Public Sphere

N Islam - Jurnal Penelitian, 2022 - e-journal.uingusdur.ac.id
This article focuses on mediating da'wah content through YouTube, packaged in the Islamic
concept of wasathiyah. The rampant phenomenon of da'wah content leads to radicals & …

My Home Quarantine on an App: A Qualitative Visual Analysis of Changes in Family Routines During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile

JP Pinilla, JA Román Brugnoli, D Leyton Legües… - Qualitative …, 2023 - Springer
This article presents original findings from a longitudinal qualitative study on changes in
individual and family life associated with safety and health measures implemented during …

Exploring game grammars: a sociosemiotic account of young people's game-making practices

B De Paula - Visual Communication, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the relationship between young people's game-making practices
and meaning-making in videogames. By exploring two different games produced in a game …

Rethinking 'Affordance','Agency'and 'User'from a Semiotic Technologies Perspective: The Emergence of a Typology of Signs-as-Agents

J Knight - Mind and Matter-Challenges and Opportunities in …, 2021 - books.google.com
This chapter shows how educationalists might (re) conceptualise digital tool use within
teaching and learning scenarios as a social practice. This is achieved by focusing on the …

Making sense of platform-mediated residences in tourist destinations. A semiotic analysis of the controversy around home sharing in Barcelona

E Soro, R Espelt, M Fuster Morell - Social Semiotics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In 2021, the city of Barcelona made the controversial decision to prohibit short-term rentals
of private rooms to tourists. The ban renewed the heated debate around the uses and …