Jacopo Castaldi
jacopocastaldi.bsky.social
Jacopo Castaldi
@jacopocastaldi.bsky.social
Academic interested in Critical Discourse Studies, Multimodality and most things Linguistics
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).
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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)
October 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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)
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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!
October 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!

We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home:
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Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!
12ICOM Groningen
12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
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October 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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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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12ICOM Groningen - SCHEDULE
Conference SCHEDULE | 12icom 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
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October 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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You can also find us on Instagram 📷, where you'll encounter (ever so slightly more) aesthetically pleasing content.
September 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Submission guidelines: Thematic panels
- We welcome proposals for thematic panels (6 individual presentations each).
- Please contact the organizing committee chair ([email protected]) if you are interested in organising one.
- Deadline: 7 November 2025.
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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🗣️📢 The call for abstracts of #cadaad2026 is out! 🗣️📢
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Hi! Welcome to the Bluesky account of #cadaad2026!
Here you will find all the updates about the conference 🙂
For more information, check our official page: shorturl.at/EVIhO
CADAAD 2026
Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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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....
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September 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New article out with Iokasti Foundouka about YouTube and the reception of a documentary on the a Greek civil war. Open access!
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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"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....
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...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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....
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September 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"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....
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...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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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September 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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!
September 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Second, the editorial provides a taxonomy of reception studies and a summary of the main empirical findings they have offered to date.
August 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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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.
August 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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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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August 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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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August 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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/...
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...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM