Media as Procedures of Communication
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The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted semiotic procedures that shape and are shaped by communicative practices. The book is structured around this central idea, with four main sections.
Part I examines digital environments, analyzing the interplay between multimodal approaches and mediality through case studies such as digital learning platforms and Zoom seminars. Part II focuses on journalistic procedures, investigating how media shapes political debates and news presentation on platforms like Instagram. Part III delves into embodied processes, particularly the role of the body movements and gestures in communication, illustrated through analyses of yoga tutorials and family dinner conversations. Part IV combines diverse semiotic and medial resources, with studies on historical data interpretation and virtual reality gaming practices. The book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of different media in constituting meaning and shaping social interactions.
Part I examines digital environments, analyzing the interplay between multimodal approaches and mediality through case studies such as digital learning platforms and Zoom seminars. Part II focuses on journalistic procedures, investigating how media shapes political debates and news presentation on platforms like Instagram. Part III delves into embodied processes, particularly the role of the body movements and gestures in communication, illustrated through analyses of yoga tutorials and family dinner conversations. Part IV combines diverse semiotic and medial resources, with studies on historical data interpretation and virtual reality gaming practices. The book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of different media in constituting meaning and shaping social interactions.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 348] Expected December 2024. vi, 303 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Why mediality matters — media as procedures of communicationMartin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider | pp. 1–13
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Section 1. Digital environment procedures
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Chapter 2. Mediality vs. materiality: A multimodal perspective on the notion of media as proceduresJanina Wildfeuer | pp. 16–39
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Chapter 3. Format as the locus of negotiating media procedures: The case of a Zoom seminar sessionPeter Schildhauer and Alexander Brock | pp. 40–65
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Section 2. Journalistic media procedures
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Chapter 4. “Do you have an idea what this clown is doing?”: Multimodal media staging in the first presidential debate and the vice presidential debate 2020Martin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider | pp. 68–97
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Chapter 5. Playing one’s part within a medial procedure: A talk show host’s role-specific interactionGeorg Albert | pp. 98–123
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Chapter 6. Media as cookie cutters: Exploring the digital mediality of news on InstagramDaniel Pfurtscheller | pp. 124–155
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Section 3. Embodied procedures
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Chapter 7. Media as processes of doing and perceiving: How a yoga pose in an online tutorial takes on meaning as felt sensationSilva H. Ladewig and Dorothea Horst | pp. 158–187
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Chapter 8. The choreography of multimedial procedures and multimodal languaging in French family dinnersAliyah Morgenstern | pp. 188–217
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Section 4. Mixed media procedures
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Chapter 9. Handling signs medially: On mediality and indexicality in semiotic media practicesMark Dang-Anh | pp. 220–245
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Chapter 10. Digital play as procedures: Social, technological, and ludic practices in the innovative VR multiplayer co-location game Spacecraft — A New Way HomeHiloko Kato | pp. 246–289
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Section 5. Commentary
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Chapter 11. Polymedia procedures: A commentaryJannis Androutsopoulos | pp. 292–305
Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics