A Tribute to Gunther Kress – Sheffield Virtual ESFLC

When Gunther Kress passed away at a conference in Rome in the summer of 2019, the idea was quickly born…

An Experiment in Multimodal Writing

Old dogs have a hard time learning new tricks. If they have a motivating master who nudges them on to…

Refashioning a cancelled symposium panel (Corona’s fault, partly), we – Jana PFLAEGING, Janina WILDFEUER and me – are hosting an…

Even (more so) in pandemic times, there is never enough breathing space to properly contemplate what one has accomplished. Only…

Thanks to the initiative of my colleagues Markus OPPOLZER and Elisabeth KRIEBER, the annual conference on ‚comics research‘ (run by…

In various situations of use, language confronts serious expressive limitations and runs up against the ineffable, i.e. experiences that cannot…

Edited volumes take particular patience, a high amount of cooperation and across-chapter coherence-generating skills. I found all these gifts in…

The University of Potsdam and its ‚Virtual Centre for Cultural Semiotics‘ will be hosting a truly interesting event from 3…

Ever since HORTON/WOHL (1956/1986) referred to the kind of virtual interaction between media makers and their anonymous and dispersed target…

Digital image-making (especially visual compositing) has gained much ground in print advertising over the last two decades. Such fast technological…