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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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).

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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).

Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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)

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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)

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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!

Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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#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!

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12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

❗ 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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12ICOM Groningen - SCHEDULE

Conference SCHEDULE | 12icom 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen

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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.

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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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🗣️📢 The call for abstracts of #cadaad2026 is out! 🗣️📢

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Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

Hi! Welcome to the Bluesky account of #cadaad2026! Here you will find all the updates about the conference 🙂 For more information, check our official page: shorturl.at/EVIhO

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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....

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New article out with Iokasti Foundouka about YouTube and the reception of a documentary on the a Greek civil war. Open access!

Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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"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....

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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"Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of #multimodality in #advertising #discourse" by Irina Aleksić- Hajduković: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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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!

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Second, the editorial provides a taxonomy of reception studies and a summary of the main empirical findings they have offered to date.

Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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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.

Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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'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....

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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'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....

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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/...

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Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' 📑: | Visual Communication Journal

Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' 📑: 01** In 'Multimodality and Reception Studies,' Jacopo Castaldi, PhD, FHEA starts with a justification of th...

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

VisCom‘s 2025 special issue papers are out! A brilliant issue on multimodal reception studies - many of them with open access! @viscomjournal.bsky.social

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I’m thrilled to announce that the Special Issue on ‘Multimodality and Reception Studies’ I guest-edited for the @viscomjournal.bsky.social is now out (and most of the papers are open access)! journals.sagepub.com/toc/VCJ/0/0?...

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Thank you so much for joining me for this talk and for your excellent questions. If you missed it, the talk has been recorded and I believe will be available soon at the same link below. Hope to see many of you in Groningen in October for the 12th International Conference on Multimodality!

Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’ll be talking about my recently published book, ‘Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation’, at the next Multimodality Talks Series event, on Friday 27th June at 12:00 (UK time). Many thanks to @sophiadiamantop.bsky.social for the invite! You can register here: multimodalforum.org

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Looking forward to discussing my recent monograph (and some extras!) in this talk. Hope to see you there! Thanks again to @sophiadiamantop.bsky.social for the invitation!

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Had a great time at the Culture and Cognition in Language 4 conference. Excellent talks, great location and amazing organisation. Also, today my book on Multimodality, Ideology and Manipulation is officially out, so please check it out if interested 🙂: www.routledge.com/Multimodalit...

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Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation: BBC Travel Documentaries and the Illusion of Empire

This book examines how sociopolitical and intercultural ideologies surrounding globalisation and neoliberalism are constructed and negotiated in travel documentaries, focusing on the role of the BBC i...

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Back in beautiful Rzeszów for the 4th edition of the Culture and Cognition in Language conference. I will be discussing multimodal aspects of authority legitimation in documentary films. The full programme and book of abstracts can be found here: www.ur.edu.pl/pl/wydzialy/...

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Visual Communication, a leading journal published by SAGE, is now on BlueSky 🎉 To celebrate, here’s a look at some of our most-read articles from the past 6 months. Give us a follow and join our BlueSky community to connect with readers and visual communication scholars ✨

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Working until late yeaterday to send the final proof and index for my forthcoming book (out end of April 🤞🏼): www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...