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    Image and text relations in ISIS materials and the new relations established through recontextualisation in online media

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    Authors
    Wignell, Peter
    O Halloran, K.
    Tan, Sabine
    Lange, R.
    Chai, K.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Wignell, P. and O Halloran, K. and Tan, S. and Lange, R. and Chai, K. 2018. Image and text relations in ISIS materials and the new relations established through recontextualisation in online media. Discourse and Communication. 12 (5): pp. 535-559.
    Source Title
    Discourse and Communication
    DOI
    10.1177/1750481318766938
    ISSN
    1750-4813
    School
    School of Education
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66658
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study takes a systemic functional multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis and discussion of image and text relations in two sets of data. First, patterns of contextualisation of images and text in the online magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah produced by the Islamic extremist organisation which refers to itself as Islamic State (referred to here as ISIS) are examined. The second data set consists of a sample of texts from Western online news and blog sites which include recontextualisations of images found in the first data set. A sample of examples of the use and re-use of images is discussed in order to identify patterns of similarity and difference when images and text are recontextualised. It is argued that the ISIS material tends to foreground the interpersonal metafunction in combination with the textual metafunction (i.e. the stance towards the content and the organisation of the message for this purpose), while the other data set tends to foreground the ideational metafunction (the participants, processes and circumstances of what is being reported). These inferences indicate that further exploration of a larger data set is worth pursuing. Such studies would provide deeper insights helping to distinguish between online material which supports terrorism and that which opposes it, as well as facilitating the further development of multimodal social semiotic approaches to image and text relations.

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