📢New article published!!
🟦Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil analyses how threat is mediated on TikTok.
🟦The study focuses on 60 public videos about the elections in Malaysia.
🟦Results show how anxieties are reworked thus enacting political force.
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📢New article published!!
🟦K. Pilyarchuk & E.M. Graf explore how tradwife identity is performed.
🟦They analysed 60 Instagram Reels posted on 11 accounts.
🟦They found 3 types of Reels, 9 dominant themes & 3 major repertoires.
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1️⃣3️⃣C. Liao & Z. Luo study the “tap-tap” function on Chinese WeChat
1️⃣4️⃣ And C. Schneider Ward et al. write the Introduction to the #SI on Dementia
Do not miss these great 14 articles here!!
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1️⃣0️⃣Y. Li & W. Ren explore the construction of intimacy in ASMR videos
1️⃣1️⃣Kateryna Pilyarchuk & Eva-Maria Graf study how tradwife identity is performed on Instagram Reels
1️⃣2️⃣P. Wang examine two trending Weibo hashtags on menstruation
7️⃣ J. Ondimu et al. examine text-visual intermodal relations in hashtag activism tweets
8️⃣ H. Yu & Y. Liu study how voices are used in BBC history documentaries
9️⃣ K. Li et al. do a multimodal genre analysis of academic knowledge services
3️⃣ @shayuze.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social analyse multimodal irony on X comments
4️⃣ Y. Guo & Y. Luo explore creativity & playful language in online comments.
5️⃣ Basma Salem et al. study livestreaming in health campaigns.
6️⃣Ran Yi analyses multimodal affordances in diplomatic narratives
🥁New issue published!!
🤓Interested on #MediatedDiscourse? Here are the contents!
1️⃣ Zhuyuan Han et al. look at the construction of the "ideal scholar-self" in academic vlogs.
2️⃣ Elisabetta Adami studies the construction of an influencer's identity throughout time.
In commemoration of #InternationalWomenDay we are featuring some articles:
🟪S. van der Meij & @janadeclercq.bsky.social explore how women in fertility treatment construct their identites on Instagram.
🟣Remember! It's open access for 12 months!
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Here is our next article in commemoration of #InternationalWomensDay:
🟪 L. Li / X. Wu studies meaning resources & levels of resistance in the construction of identities by male beauty influencers on Bilibili.
🟣Remember! #openacces for 12 months!
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Here is our first article in commemoration of #InternationalWomensDay:
🟪 M.G. Sindoni combines multimodal #CDA with feminist philosophy to analyse the discourse ideologies hidden in gendering AI voice assistants.
🟣Remember, #openacces for 12 months!
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📢📢To commemorate #InternationalWomensDay, at #DCM_Journal we have selected some articles published by female authors in the last two years.
These will be #openaccess for 12 months!
We will be saying more soon, but in the meantime...
🔽Here is our selection. Do not miss them!
📢New article published!
🟦Yadong Guo & Yushu Luo explore creativity & playful language in online comments.
🟦They propose the concept "invented voices" for studying 247 comments on RedNote.
🟦 Types, realizations & functions of voices are identified.
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📢New article out!
🟦 @shayuze.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social study user's stance and multimodal irony.
🟦They analyse comments on X to the UK's NHS Covid-19 policy posts.
🟦They prove the mediating role of affordances & offer a replicable method.
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3️⃣ Noam Gal explores misinterpretations in social interaction by analysing ironic humour.
4️⃣ Jungyoon Koh & Anna De Final study online retellings on YouTube of viral TikTok stories.
It is a short but very interesting issue!
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🥁New issue published!!
🤓Are you interested in #MediatedDiscourse? Here are the contents!
1️⃣ Jingtian Sydney Wang & Debing Feng look at policywashing strategies on corporate discourse.
2️⃣ Daniel Ungureanu studies the relation between aesthetics & altgorithms in AI-generated memes.
📢New article published!
🟦Jingtian Sydney Wang & @DebingF
study corporations' recontextualization of state discourse.
🟦They analysed Weiboo posts on "craftsmanship spirit"
🟦They identified 4 discursive frames which result in corporate's policywashing
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📢New publication on #AI!
🟦Daniel Ungureanu studies how AI-generated memes negotiate visibility & illegibility.
🟦Data relates to Italian Bainrot & is taken from Instagram.
🟦The analysis proves that overload opacity is a useful explanatory concept.
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📢New article published!
🟦Noam Gal studies the misinterpretation of ironic utterances on social media.
🟦2 dimensions are studied: participant structure + content explicitness.
🟦Both dimensions interact in the demarcation of group boundaries.
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📚Looking for something to read in the new year?
🤓Interested in #MediatedDiscourse?
Here are some recommedations on how #emoji mediate digital communication!
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Jenia Yudytska studies how affordances (incl. emoji) vary across platforms.
🟦Data comes from sets of posts on Twitter & Discord.
🔷Quantitative differences relate to use of 📱or🖥️.
🔵Other contextual factors also influence use of affordances.
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Cecilia Lazzeretti explores how emoji shape museums' communication with their audiences.
🟦Data comes from the FB & Insta accounts of 17 museums.
🔷Analysis draws on a coding rubric looking at 4 categories of meaning.
🔵Intermodal semiosis plays a role.
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Dalal Altayari, Kaixi Yuan & @michelezappavigna.bsky.social explore how emoji contribute to interpersonal alignment.
🟦Data derives from a collection of conversations between humans & chatboxes.
🔵Emoji modulate attitude through textual patterning.
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📚Looking for something to read in the new year?
🤓Interested in #MediatedDiscourse?
Here are some recommedations on how #emoji mediate digital communication!
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💻In what is becoming a tradition, the #DCM team took our annual photo at our last meeting in 2025.
🎄So happy festive season to all our readers!
📘And stay tuned, we'll be back in 2026 with more recommedations on #MediatedDiscourse!
🔵And M.G. Sindoni et al. on translaguaging in the construction of bilingual parenting on social media.
And 1 final paper on the #SI on Digital Intimacies:
🔵Final discussion by I. Gershon
Everything can be read here ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/journal/disc...
Do not miss it out!
And 4 more articles on the #SI on Translanguaging:
🔵Y. Wang et al. on multimodal translanguaging creativity by a Chinese vlogger
🔵F. Busch et al. on translingual resources on smartphones.
🔵C. Pérez-Arrendondo et al. on intercultural identities by Chilean influencers.
It also includes 3 papers on the #SI on Mediating scientific knowledge:
🔵The editorial, by R. Lorés & P. Mur-Dueñas
🔵 O. Dontcheva-Navratilova on the recontextualization of knowledge in biology video abstracts
🔵 S. Murillo on the functions of emojis on X posts about science
8️⃣C. Song & T. Chen on the communicative function of parenthesis on Chinese social media.
Also including 2 papers on the #SI on Dementia:
🔵M. Pleyer on metaphorical construals by patients on a forum.
🔵S. Kleinke & Monika Pleyer on the relevance of gender on a forum.
4️⃣ J.M. Fuller on humour & ethnonationalist discourse in YouTube.
5️⃣Y. Sun & colleagues on the mediating role of emoji for self-praise.
6️⃣ D. Altayari & colleagues on the interpersonal function of emoji on chatbots.
7️⃣ T.-L. A. Wan on the remediation of an influencer to TV.
🥁New issue published!!!
Here is the newest research on #MediatedDiscourse!
1️⃣J. Guo on the transformative potential of short video platforms.
2️⃣ C. Gardam & colleagues on conspiracy discourses about climate on Instagram.
3️⃣Y. Zhao & colleagues on female fitness influencers