Jacopo Castaldi

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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).

Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation: BBC Travel Documentaries and the Illusion of Empire Published in Critical Discourse Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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.
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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 Groningen 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen

#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!

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❗ The full #12ICOM conference program is now available online!

Registration is still open until 15 October - or until all places are filled.

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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.

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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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, gaze behaviour and learning outcome in educational videos - Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, Leandra Thiele, John A Bateman, 2025 Multimodal design in educational videos is a complex task, requiring the effective integration of various semiotic modalities to promote understanding among rec...

"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....

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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....

An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts - Lisi Liang, Siwen Lu, 2025 Danmu-mediated communication reveals the intricate process of audience participation and preference. Such intricacy of communication includes danmu subtitling a...

"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....

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"Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of #multimodality in #advertising #discourse" by Irina Aleksić-
Hajduković:

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12ICOM conference poster

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
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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.

Multimodality and Reception Studies - Jacopo Castaldi, 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.

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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.

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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...

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!

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