Mobile Multi-media Messages (MMS): Show-don't-tell in a Communication

Bertrand Horel

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: MMS; semiotics; interpersonnal communication; image; text; message (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
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Published in International Journal of Digital Economics 59 (2005): pp. 17-34

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