Mediation and Multimodal Meaning Making in Digital Environments

Ilaria Moschini is tenured Assistant Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Florence,Italy. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from University College London, UK (UCL). She has published articles and book chapters in leading international journals and edited special issues and collections on media language, US political discourse, critical discourse analysis and multimodality. She published a monograph on the cultural and semiotic evolution of the American Dream (Le Lettere 2007). She is member of editorial boards in indexed journals in the areas of linguistics and multimodality. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark and has participated in national and international research projects.Maria Grazia Sindoni is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations at the University of Messina (Italy). Her main research interests embrace multimodal studies, systemic-functional linguistics, and applied linguistics. She participated in numerous international research projects, as a team member and as principal investigator. Her publications include several monographs, edited collections, as well as articles and chapters on theories and methods to investigate how semiosis of communication works in video-mediated contexts by applying multimodal frameworks of analysis and transcription methods that account for the repertoire of semiotic resources. She explores questions of testing and assessment for the development of digital literacies.