Dear colleagues and friends, the ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our next talk is on 25th March and is by Prof Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University (see abstract and joining instructions below).
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The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our first talk for 2026 is on 28th January and is by Dr Rami Younes from Canterbury Christ Church University (see abstract below).
Happy to see the first review of my book out. I think the reviewer did a great job at highlighting the strengths of the book and possible venues for future research to expand on it. A good 2-page summary of the book in case you’re still pondering whether to check it out.
doi.org/10.1080/1740...
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our final talk for 2025 is on 10th December and is by Dr Yu Zhu from Qilu Normal University (see abstract below).
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our third talk on 26th November is by Sinéad Jackson from University College London (see abstract and joining instructions below).
On my way back from the 12th International Conference on Multimodality, where I had two presentations.
Thank you to Dr @neous.bsky.social and her colleagues for the amazing organisation, and I’m already looking forward to the next chapter in Helsinki in 2027!
#12ICOM
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group, co-organised by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our second talk on 12th November is by Dr Laure Cataldo from Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Besançon (CRIT)
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group, co-organised by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. We start on 22nd October with Dan Thorpe from CCCU (see abstract contact details to join below)
New chapter out on multisensory processing, affect and multimodal manipulation. You can find the volume here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... and the abstract for my chapter below. Well done to all the contributors and thank you to the editors for their hard work!
#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!
We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home:
bit.ly/12ICOMLive
Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!
❗ The full #12ICOM conference program is now available online!
Registration is still open until 15 October - or until all places are filled.
sites.google.com/rug.nl/12ico...
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Submission guidelines: Thematic panels
- We welcome proposals for thematic panels (6 individual presentations each).
- Please contact the organizing committee chair (laura.filardo@uva.es) if you are interested in organising one.
- Deadline: 7 November 2025.
Submission guidelines: Presentations (in-person; individually or co-presented)
- Abstract: up to 300 words (including references).
- Presentation: 20 minutes.
- Languages: English (main conference language) or Spanish (limited number of papers)
- Abstract deadline: 21 November 2025.
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Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue
Multimodality and Reception Studies
"Visual Disinformation and Audience Reception: A Comparative Analysis of Media Richness, Sophistication, and Emotional Engagement in Chinese Social Media" by Yu Xiang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New article out with Iokasti Foundouka about YouTube and the reception of a documentary on the a Greek civil war. Open access!
"Linking #multimodal cohesion, scan paths and learning outcomes in #educational #videos" by Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, Leandra Thiele, John A. Bateman. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Children’s comprehension and interpretation of #narrative complexity in film: The tangled case of flashbacks" by Emilia Djonov, Chiao-I Tseng. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts" by Lisi Liang and Siwen Lu. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of #multimodality in #advertising #discourse" by Irina Aleksić-
Hajduković:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
12ICOM conference poster
Preparations are in full swing and we look forward to welcoming everyone in Groningen soon for #12ICOM:
12th International Conference on Multimodality
29-31 October 2025, House of Connections, Groningen
bit.ly/12ICOM
Watch our website for the full program to be online soon!
Second, the editorial provides a taxonomy of reception studies and a summary of the main empirical findings they have offered to date.
Finally, the contributions to the special issue are summarised, and their logical progression from multimodal text comprehension to multimodal text interpretation is justified drawing on Bordwell’s work on films.
'Cluttered Screens – An Eye-Tracking Study of Visual Attention Allocation among Viewers of TV News' by Jan Hensellek focuses on the distribution of #visual #attention and #memory.
Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
'Insights into the black box of #multimodal meaning-making: Investigating the reception of Multimodality empirically' by Hans-Jürgen Bucher on experimental #ReceptionStudies, integrated with #multimodal text analysis.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
In 'Multimodality and Reception Studies,' @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social starts with a justification of the need to integrate reception studies within empirical multimodal research, whilst clarifying the dynamic and two-directional nature of multimodal communication. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
