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.
