Tracing the narrativity of National Geographic feature articles in the light of evolving media landscapes

Pflaeging, Jana

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2017.07.003

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“…Also, professional content providers anticipate their audience's genre expectations. This notion is inextricably linked to the ethno-methodological branch of genres studies, where genres have also been conceptualized as prototypically organized "socio-cognitive devices for sense-making" (Lomborg 2014: 45;Sandig 2000) that participants draw on both in text production and reception (see Luginbühl 2014;Schildhauer 2016;Pflaeging 2017). In that sense, genres function as frames of reference on whose grounds situated use is made sense of, and pattern conformity and divergence are noticed.…”

Section: Sticky Patterns and Social Buttonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives , edited by Crispin Thurlow, Christa Dürscheid and Federica Diémoz, Berlin/Bosten, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, 273 pp., $114.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-5015-1874-4

Pang

2023

Critical Discourse Studies

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The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis; visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains, chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their macro-level framing -all with particular regard for emojis. The second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppänen, examines the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations, and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut Stöckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.

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confidence: 99%

Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives Visualizing digital discourse: interactional, institutional and ideological perspectives , edited by Crispin Thurlow, Christa Dürscheid and Federica Diémoz, Berlin/Bosten, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, 273 pp., $114.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-5015-1874-4

Pang

2023

Critical Discourse Studies

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“…It is a truism that document content is more than words and pictures (Ehrmann, Bunout, & Düring 2019): it is narrativity (Pflaeging 2017), materiality (McKenzie 1999, form (Hiippala 2016), affect , context (Agarwal 2018), and more. Similarly, documents and interfaces are dependent on know-how, resources, management and politics (1987) where an angel listens to the flow of the readers' thoughts in the State Library of Berlin.…”

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Applications of the Document Towers method of representing document structures

Atanasiu

2022

IDJ

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This article argues in favor of representing the spatial distribution of information within and between documents, by surveying a broad variety of potential applications, including the entire document lifecycle, multiple sensory modalities, and a large spectrum of tasks and users. The theoretical explanations of this richness are a further facet of the article, and can be summarized as follows: (1) insights emerge from focusing on information structure, rather than information meaning; (2) spatializing information creates new information; (3) simplification increases the polyvalence of representation models; (4) introducing mystery in communication channels motivates discovery and diversifies insights; (5) approaching information design as a Gesamtkunstwerk multiplies the applications; (6) information is a manifestation of a link between structures and the actions these enable, while information design is the art and science of creating such links. The argument is developed around the concrete example of a document structure visualization, the Document Towers, which uses the metaphor of architectural models to represent documents.

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“…What will stand out verbally and guide their fleeting interpretation are likely to be headlines, inserts, captions and add-on text boxes. Pictorially, skimming the feature article will result in an idea of the subtopics that constitute the narrative or argument (Pflaeging, 2017b). Any high-quality feature will make sure to adjust text and images optimally so as to make these two semiotic modes interlock and cooperate in comprehension as effectively as possible.…”

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“…Looking at the flow of pages, the analyst can also glean how the patterns have been used to create a sequential structure of layouts, which contains repetitions and specific configurations of layout patterns for rhetorical effect. In this way, media like National Geographic can be understood as more or less standardized collections of layout templates, which can flexibly be filled with material and built up into varying structures (Pflaeging, 2017a(Pflaeging, , 2017b COLOUR Kress and Van Leeuwen (2002: 345) argue that 'colour is a semiotic resource like others: regular, with signs that are motivated … and not at all arbitrary or anarchic.' However, in graphic design, it is inextricably linked to the coloured image or the coloured font.…”

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Tracing The Shapes of Multimodal Rhetoric: Showing the Epistemic Powers of Visualization

Pflaeging

Stöckl

2021

Visual Communication

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This visual essay seeks to substantiate and illustrate the tenet that formal–structural elements in graphic design carry rhetorical functions. Based on a National Geographic feature article, the authors demonstrate methods for ‘measuring’ layout, colour and typography, and show the results in infographic visualizations. At the same time, the study showcases the epistemic value of these visualizations. The perspective adopted puts the double-page centre-stage.

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Tracing the narrativity of National Geographic feature articles in the light of evolving media landscapes

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Applications of the Document Towers method of representing document structures

Tracing The Shapes of Multimodal Rhetoric: Showing the Epistemic Powers of Visualization

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