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Visuality of writing in arts and visual communication

editor Valentina Manchia and Salvatore Zingale


Ocula 29 | Flux 2024

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Flux_Essays
November 2024  |  in italian  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
This paper aims to explore the veridictory strategies dating apps employ to enhance user engagement. Central to online dating, the Swipe action — Right Swipe for interest and Left Swipe for disregard — embodies a widely adopted practice. Nevertheless,an increasing number of users e |... ⇲

November 2024  |  in italian  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
The present paper serves as a first systematic study on one of the lesser-known aspects of Umberto Eco's work, namely the one concerning his paratextual production. Specifically, we go through all the re-views, introductions, prefaces, postfaces and biblio-graphical notes written b |... ⇲

July 2024  |  in french  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
The conference on heterotopias is an opportunity to propose an urban and social archaeology. The article suggests a genealogy of the city through the ar-rangement of four spaces: topic, heterotopic, utopic and homotopic. Another fragment of this lecture in-troduces the virtual spac |... ⇲

July 2024  |  in italian  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
This work is part of the extensive series of semiotic studies that, from the late 1980s to the present, have dialogued with the most diverse areas of marketing, up to the most recent digital marketing. It proposes a path that is not only concerned with academic research, whether th |... ⇲

January 2024  |  in italian  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
Numerous scholars have debated the transmediality of Gomorrah - The Series, offering varying opinions. The thesis we aim to support is that this is a case of incomplete transmediality, primarily due to gaps in Sky Italia's promotional strategies, especially concerning social media. |... ⇲

January 2024  |  in english  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
Against the backdrop of the general logic and rhetoric of conspiracy theories, an analysis of the Soros Myth will provide some additional perspective to the question of what makes such constructions attractive to the eyes of their followers. On the one hand, the appeal of conspirac |... ⇲

2023▼
December 2023  |  in italian  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
This contribution aims to investigate the relationship between fashion and media in today’s digital age. It analyses the main effects of this pairing, which, under the name of fashion-media, investigates the relationship between fashion and media consumption, analyses elements of t |... ⇲

December 2023  |  in italian  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
The television miniseries Watchmen (HBO, 2019) is a particularly complex narrative product. The miniseries is inspired by the graphic novel of the same title by Alan Moore and David Gibbons and was created by writer, producer, and cartoonist David Lindelof - known as co-writer and  |... ⇲

December 2023  |  in italian  |   METADATA  |  ➞ PDF
If Emilio Garroni in his important study of 1975 (Pinocchio uno e bino) proposed considering Pinocchio as two novels in one, the first – called Pinocchio I – which goes from chapter I to chapter XV and ends with the hanging of the puppet, and the second, called Pinocchio II, which  |... ⇲



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Cultural branding. Come i brand diventano icone


Roma, Luiss University Press, 2023, pp. 302, 24,00€
Dario Mangano e Paolo Peverini traducono un volume classico dedicato al cultural branding, l'approccio alternativo al |...➞
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