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dc.contributor.authorWilde, Lukas R.A.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-11T08:14:02Z
dc.date.available2024-07-11T08:14:02Z
dc.date.created2024-03-15T21:55:53Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Comics. 2023, 14 (1), 43-62.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2040-3232
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3140119
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on Nadja Hermann’s uniquely inspiring webcomic Erzählmirnix (sometimes translated into English as ‘Emoticomix’), approaching it from a theory of mediation. In recent years, this perspective has been developed into a fine-grained model for the analytical application in comic studies. Applied alongside or complementary to narrative-focused as well as art-focused perspectives, a view on comics as mediation puts into focus the interrelations of communicative-semiotic, material-technological and conventional-institutional aspects of a comic’s production, distribution and reception. Erzählmirnix makes an excellent, intriguingly complicated test case, as it is at the same time incredibly influential in German-speaking countries while still being entirely neglected by research. ‘Mediation’ focuses on the distribution of agency between all the actors involved with (digital artefacts perceived as) comics: in a semiotic-communicative respect this refers to comic-specific ‘narrative instances’ (like narrators, perceived as distinct from authors or artists) as well as to affordances and limitations of genre traditions; in a material-technological respect it addresses the possibilities and constraints of platforms and material formats, while cultural-institutional perspectives take agency distributed between countless personal, institutional or corporate actors into account. My article then discusses how the entangled agentic structures surrounding Herrmann’s minimalistic graphics and ‘emoji’-pictures constantly bridge, undermine and negotiate distinctions between comics, cartoons, memes and actual social media commentary.en_US
dc.description.abstractWebcomics as Mediationen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherIntellecten_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleWebcomics as Mediationen_US
dc.title.alternativeWebcomics as Mediationen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.source.pagenumber43-62en_US
dc.source.volume14en_US
dc.source.journalStudies in Comicsen_US
dc.source.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1386/stic_00098_1
dc.identifier.cristin2255039
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cristin.fulltextpostprint
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