Multimodality and Aesthetics

Elise Seip Tønnessen is Professor in the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder, Norway.Frida Forsgren is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Agder, Norway.

• 1. IntroductionElise Seip Tønnessen and Frida ForsgrenPart I.2. Multimodality, style and the aesthetic: the case of the digital werewolfAndrew Burn and Gunther Kress3. A phenomenological approach to multimodality and aesthetic experiencesThomas Illum HansenPart III.4. Memoria of a national traumaEva Maagerø and Aslaug Veum5. Reconstruction of Chilean memories in the national stadium of Chile: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of a centre of detention and torturePatricia Baeza Duffy6. Shaping the social through the Aesthetics of public places: the renovation of Leeds Kirkgate MarketElisabetta AdamiPart III.7. A multimodal analysis of aesthetics in Brazilian school textbooksClarice Lage Gualberto and Sônia Maria de Oliveira Pimenta8. Aesthetic experience through students’ production of digital booksHege Emma Rimmereide, Jon Hoem and Sarah Hoem Iversen 9. Digital Argumentation AestheticsJon Hoem and Ture Schwebs 10. Visualizing norms of science in early school years: visual aesthetics and content formation in students’ multimodal compositionsElin Westlund11. The aesthetic potential of vocal sound in online learning situationsJohnny WingstedtPart IV.12. The templatized aesthetics of Wix: a social semiotic technology approach to web designGunhild Kvåle & Søren Vigild Poulsen 13. Digital Scrapbooks, everyday aesthetics and the curatorial self: social photography in female visual bloggingSumin Zhao and Michele Zappavigna 14. Multimodality, moving images and aestheticsØystein Gilje15. Filtered aesthetics: a study of Instagram’s photo filters from the perspective of semiotic technology Søren Vigild Poulsen Part V. 16. Sensory experience and a subjective reading position in The Lost Thing Kristin Ørjasæter17. Tears in heaven: Eric Clapton coping with loss through music and wordsBjarne Markussen18. Multimodal aesthetics and gender in Beck's Song Reader Kate Maxwell and Lilli Mittner19. Intermodal contrast in film: looking for the aesthetics of intermodal relationsMartin Siefkes