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This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in everyday social interactions serves as a basis for how Touch is understood as multiply significant – physically, emotionally, intellectually and politically. Andreallo initiates a map of the fundamentals of Touch and how they can be considered for future research in considering digitally networked cultures. This map also serves as a basis for closely examining selfies and memes. Examining social networks of Touch, Andreallo focuses on a specific example of the PrettyGirlsUglyFaces meme and ugly selfies(uglies). Through this example, memes and selfies are mapped as Touch involving textures of both intimacy and violence. Andreallo also discusses technological seamlessness and cultural semefulness as conversations of social relationships of Touch, and proposes the term semeful sociabilities to describe how the everyday technological self engages in practices of Touch. This book is a compact, approachable insight into selfies and memes as everyday culturally networked Touch relationships that also offers a way forward in recognising technological relationships as culturally meaningful.

Media studies --- Film, TV & radio --- Popular culture --- Selfies --- Memes --- Pretty Girl Ugly Face meme --- Social media --- Semiotics --- Communication through touch --- Photography --- Visual communication --- Social Semiotics --- Digital intimacies --- Human-technology relationships --- Culture --- Internet --- Memes. --- Selfies (Photography) --- Study and teaching. --- Social aspects.

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Literacy Theories for the Digital Age insightfully brings together six essential approaches to literacy research and educational practice. The book provides powerful and accessible theories for readers, including Socio-cultural, Critical, Multimodal, Socio-spatial, Socio-material and Sensory Literacies. The brand new Sensory Literacies approach is an original and visionary contribution to the field, coupled with a provocative foreword from leading sensory anthropologist David Howes. This dynamic collection explores a legacy of literacy research while showing the relationships between each paradigm, highlighting their complementarity and distinctions. This highly relevant compendium will inspire researchers and teachers to explore new frontiers of thought and practice in times of diversity and technological change.

Literacy --- Interactive multimedia. --- Hypermedia systems --- Interactive media --- Computer software --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Study and teaching. --- Technological innovations. --- Social aspects. --- Critical literacy. --- Digital Literacy. --- Material literacy. --- Multimodal literacy. --- Sensory literacy. --- Social semiotics. --- Socio-cultural literacy. --- Socio-material theory. --- Socio-spatial theory. --- Spatial literacy.

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This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes place in three different ways. First of all, even if marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of mainstream media and political accounts that have depicted refugees in terms of threats. Secondly, and more consistently, through a representation of Syrian displaced people that, despite the undeniable innovative aesthetic patterns focusing on dignity and empowerment, continue to reinforce a visual narrative around refugees in terms of victimhood and passivity. The reproduction of a securitized account takes also place through the dialectic between what is made visible in the pictures and what is not. At the same time the book identifies visual glimmers and minor displacements in the humanitarian discourse that have the potentiality to produce alternative discourses on refugees and displacement beyond the mainstream securitized ones. By showing how relief organizations’ visual representation contributes to the securitization of the refugee issue, this book provides a great resource to students and academics in migration, visuality, humanitarianism and securitization, as well as social scientists and policy-makers.

Migration. Refugees --- Politics --- Public administration --- overheid --- politiek --- migratie (mensen) --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Refugees --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Public opinion --- Migration, immigration & emigration --- Combinatorics & graph theory --- Political structure & processes --- Migration --- Public Policy --- Visualization --- Governance and Government --- Human Migration --- Migration Policy --- Data and Information Visualization --- Visual securitization --- Migration governance --- Humanitarian photography --- Humanitarian representation of Syrian displacement --- Transnational humanitarian NGOs --- Humanitarianism and politics --- Humanitarian communication --- NGOs visual communication --- Visuality of Syrian displacement --- Securitization of the refugee issue --- Humanitarian NGOs and global governance --- Visual social semiotics --- Visual analysis --- Threatening images --- Syrian people on the move’ invisibility --- Visual glimmers --- Open access