Horel, Bertrand (2005): Mobile Multi-media Messages (MMS): Show-don't-tell in a Communication. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 59 (September 2005): pp. 17-34.
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With its complex intersemiotic and intermedial textual configuration, the multimedia mobile message (MMS) offers a unique opportunity to apply visual semiotics tools to the theories of communication. By means of an experimental technical device used by a sample of MMS users who exchanged real image-containing messages, the author highlights the ways in which individuals play with the technical constraints of the MMS application during message production. The analysis of a set of simple messages reveals the extent to which the natural indicial tension of photography impregnates the messages, to the point of their assuming a playful dimension, through ingenious playing on meaning within the framework of a private message.
| Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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| Additional Information: | For more information : www.comstrat.org |
| Institution: | Communications & Strategies |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | MMS; semiotics; interpersonnal communication; image; text; message |
| Subjects: | L - Industrial Organization > L9 - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities > L96 - Telecommunications |
| ID Code: | 2499 |
| Deposited By: | Sophie Nigon |
| Deposited On: | 02. Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 07. Nov 2007 02:31 |
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