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Change and continuity in our post-pandemic techno-social lives.
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Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development . Aug2024, p1-7. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The global – albeit uneven – nature of the Covid-19 pandemic has heralded changes that shape and reshape ethnoscapes, technoscapes, finanscapes, ideoscapes, mediascapes (Appadurai 1996) [<italic>Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization</italic>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press] and linguascapes (Pennycook 2003) [“Global Englishes, Rip Slyme and Performativity.” <italic>Journal of Sociolinguistics</italic> 7 (4): 513–533]. It is unsurprising then that the papers in this Special Issue show how contradictions have become commonsensical in the post-Covid landscape. Agency runs as an overarching theme across the papers in diverse forms: the reassigning of primary responsibility for health to individuals by authorities (Huang); the undertaking of active surveillance of the self and others (Leppänen); increasing agency through digital technology and multimodal repertoires (Ou and Maelström); and activism in the form of positive digital citizenship (Jiang) or online and offline political activism and protest (Silva and Lopes). Intertwined with this theme of agency, a number of areas emerge: the issue of personalisation or individualisation in digital communication; the increasing multi-modality and in particular the creative move from remediation to resemiotisation, benign and malignant; the role of surveillance, in terms of the policing of order, maintenance of behaviour and control of the self and others, and of explicit groups by official authorities; and the hierarchies and inequalities in terms of the uneven experience of the pandemic and its ongoing effects and activist responses to this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01434632
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179081003
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2390580