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).

🌞 mooooorning! The first round of #cadaad2026 notifications should have already reached your inboxes 📧 More notifications are on their way! See you in Valladolid 🙂

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 ([email protected]) 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.

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

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

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....

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.

Free access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

'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/...

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

Special issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' guest-edited by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social is available Online First. For a variety of methodological tools for exploring the entire communication process, from the creation of a text to its reception, check www.linkedin.com/posts/visual...

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?...

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!

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

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!

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...

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/...

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 ✨

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...

❗ New year, new #BreGroMM sessions: 📅 Next one is on 17 January on social interaction. 🫵 You want to present? More sessions are coming up and we have some open spots! 👉 You have an idea or a question, a workshop or some data to discuss? Submit your #abstract via forms.gle/mzj7vcGTmNJz....

Happy to share an end-of-year publication, open access. This article looks at the issue of media effects and discusses a longitudinal case study. If you’re interested in media effects, multimodality and Relevance Theory, this is for you 🙂. sciendo.com/article/10.2...

Good things to share before putting on an out of office note: NWO, the Dutch Research Foundation, will be generously sponsoring the #12ICOM next year! >270 submissions are currently under review. I am excited to see who will be joining us in Groningen in October! bit.ly/12ICOM