De Ascaniis, S., Vannini, S. and Cantoni, L. (2018) Argumentation in participant-driven photo interviews : a case in ICT for development in Mozambique. Semiotica, 2018 (220). pp. 173-198. ISSN 0037-1998
Abstract
Argumentation is essentially dialogical, hence based on verbal disputation. Nonetheless, other semiotic resources than language may play a substantial role in argumentative circumstances. In this article, different argumentative functions played by photographs are explored, based on an unusual corpus for the field. People working in Mozambican Community Multimedia Centers (CMCs) were interviewed, in order to reconstruct the social meaning they confer to such places. To facilitate the exchange of meanings between interviewees and interviewers, who had different cultural and experiential backgrounds, interviewees were requested to take pictures of something they liked, something they didn’t like, and something they perceived as particularly representative of their CMC. Pictures were then presented and commented by participants during their interview. By means of analytical reconstructions, the major argumentative roles played by photographs in the interviews were identified, as well as their semiotic function in respect to interviewees’ words. Argumentative analysis also broadened and enriched the method of photo-driven interviews, and added a further interpretative access to analysis of social representations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. |
Keywords: | multimodal argumentation; participant-driven photo interviews; ICT4D; Community Multimedia Centers; social representations |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2020 13:15 |
Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2020 13:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/sem-2015-0137 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164582 |