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. Introduction

Elise Seip Tønnessen and Frida Forsgren



Part I.



2. Multimodality, style and the aesthetic: the case of the digital werewolf

Andrew Burn and Gunther Kress



3. A phenomenological approach to multimodality and aesthetic experiences

Thomas Illum Hansen



Part III.



4. Memoria of a national trauma

Eva Maagerø and Aslaug Veum



5. Reconstruction of Chilean memories in the national stadium of Chile: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of a centre of detention and torture

Patricia Baeza Duffy



6. Shaping the social through the Aesthetics of public places: the renovation of Leeds Kirkgate Market

Elisabetta Adami



Part III.



7. A multimodal analysis of aesthetics in Brazilian school textbooks

Clarice Lage Gualberto and Sônia Maria de Oliveira Pimenta



8. Aesthetic experience through students’ production of digital books

Hege Emma Rimmereide, Jon Hoem and Sarah Hoem Iversen



9. Digital Argumentation Aesthetics

Jon Hoem and Ture Schwebs



10. Visualizing norms of science in early school years: visual aesthetics and content formation in students’ multimodal compositions

Elin Westlund



11. The aesthetic potential of vocal sound in online learning situations

Johnny Wingstedt



Part IV.



12. The templatized aesthetics of Wix: a social semiotic technology approach to web design

Gunhild Kvåle & Søren Vigild Poulsen



13. Digital Scrapbooks, everyday aesthetics and the curatorial self: social photography in female visual blogging

Sumin Zhao and Michele Zappavigna



14. Multimodality, moving images and aesthetics

Øystein Gilje



15. 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 Ørjasæter



17. Tears in heaven: Eric Clapton coping with loss through music and words

Bjarne Markussen



18. Multimodal aesthetics and gender in Beck's Song Reader



Kate Maxwell and Lilli Mittner



19. Intermodal contrast in film: looking for the aesthetics of intermodal relations

Martin Siefkes