Kay O'Halloran, 'Everything is Intermedial'

We are happy to invite you to attend the second talk in our open lecture series Meeting Media Minds: Critical legacies of Lars Elleström on Wednesday 20 April. This week we are visited by Professor  Kay O’Halloran (Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool).

Abstract: ‘Everything is Intermedial’

The aim of this talk is to explore the implications of Lars Elleström’s work in intermediality in relation to digital media. The starting point is Lars’s view “that virtually all forms of communications can and should be understood in terms of intermediality and multimodality”(Elleström, Fusillo, & Petricola, 2020, p. 31). From here, I adopt a semiotic approach to explore intermediality and multimodality as general conditions for understanding communication and media border-crossing in the digital age.  In doing so, I investigate the changes which are occurring as a result of digital media technologies and their impact on the human condition, drawing upon Lar’s model for understanding intermedial relations  (Elleström, 2010). In this way, I conceptualise semiosis in the digital age as a one-way mirror and discuss the implications for the future.

References

Elleström, L. (2010). The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations. In L. Elleström (Ed.), Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (pp. 11-48). Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Elleström, L., Fusillo, M., & Petricola, M. (2020). «Everything is intermedial»: A Conversation with Lars Elleström. Between, X(20). doi:10.13125/2039-6597/4443

How to attend

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