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The Project
The aim of IMACTIS is to stimulate European citizens into using social network images in a way so that they maymanage their identities in a critical manner
Publications
Collected in this section are the academic papers related to / funded by the research project IMACTIS
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A new epistemology of visual documents
This set of papers aims to build a new epistemology of visual documents, articulated across three dimensions: the compositional dimension, which pertains to the figures and forms visualized within images; the mediatic dimension, which concerns the technical formats of images, their materiality, and their substrates; and, finally, the rhetorical dimension…
The semio-rhetoric functioning of
social media
In this series of articles, we propose to understand social networks as semio-rhetorical fields in which the construction and transformation of value follows unprecedented dynamics…
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Analysis of visual identity-related narration on social networks and video archive appropriations
This section gathers papers that analyze concrete cases of identity-related images on social networks or in video archival appropriations using the epistemology of visual documents and the semio-rhetorical theoretical framework built in the first
two sections…