Planet Word: Opening a Museum Mid-Pandemic
Planet Word is a new kind of museum. Founded on ideas, not on a collection of artifacts, the museum aims to bring language to life. And the way we’re doing that is through experiences...
Open pdf version of the PanMeMic Manifesto Cite as: Adami, Elisabetta et al. (2020) PanMeMic Manifesto: Making meaning in the Covid-19 pandemic and the future of social interaction. Working Papers in Urban Language and...
Planet Word is a new kind of museum. Founded on ideas, not on a collection of artifacts, the museum aims to bring language to life. And the way we’re doing that is through experiences...
Introduction In the UK, retail shop design as a key form of marketing can be traced back to the 18th century. At that time, establishing a distinct store identity was already very important...
Deedee Levine, born in Brooklyn, New York, 1935, has lived in Syracuse, New York since 1966. She is the widow of historian Joseph M. Levine and mother of Peter Levine of Tufts University and Caroline Levine of Cornell University. A 1958...
[ Cite this article as: Styliani Karatza, “Students, the PanMe-Microphone is yours: Social interaction, Communication and Learning at a Greek Primary School context,” in PanMeMic, 30/08/2020, https://panmemic.hypotheses.org/?p=827 ] June 2020. A special month for all...
The endeavor in this post conference interview is to explore how we can add an interactive dimension to pedagogy and educational objectives and delve deeply into the pandemic shock to education and discern its...
BY Sophia Diamantopoulou, Sofia Paschou and Georgios Papaioannou This blog post addresses museum issues that have arisen in this pandemic. They relate to the digital communication of museums with visitors, the increased online...
Memes serve essential functions of communication, political participation, laughter, and community, which are even more important during a global crisis of this scale.
A mask should be an incredibly simple thing – a piece of fabric covering the nose and mouth, tied behind the ears, ideally to stop the transmission of infectious disease. But we all know...
Cite this article as: Kate Cowan, “Play in the Pandemic,” in PanMeMic, 26/07/2020, https://panmemic.hypotheses.org/?p=683 The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on all aspects of life. For children, it’s had major consequences for where,...
Last spring, after all our students suddenly left campus mid-semester, I spent the next several weeks, like many professors around the world, teaching my course from the coziness of my own dining table,...
As you begin reading, could I invite you to start playing the mix embedded below, as long as you are comfortably able to read and listen at the same time: The anthropologist Scott R....
Remote digital learning, where technology-mediated teaching and learning are conducted virtually, has become the rule of engagement in universities and schools today. The pandemic has rendered physical learning, in the form of face-to-face lessons,...
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of everyday communicative practice, and some of the effects are potentially long-lasting. The massive shift to on-line work-from-home cuts the costs of office space as well as...
Jessica Bradley, University of Sheffield jessica.bradley@sheffield.ac.uk @JessMaryBradley I’m an ethnographer and my current research (paused for the moment) considers linguistic landscapes (words and images on signs in public space) and young people’s engagements...
An interview to a Sicilian cardiologist amidst the coronavirus crisis In Sicily, two months ago, we were experiencing the beginning of the never-before-experienced lockdown and waiting for the deadly virus to come down from...
In March 2020 New Zealand instigated one of the most aggressive and decisive lockdowns in the world to tackle COVID-19. So far that decision has paid off, and there are currently no active cases...
Eradicating a pathogen using a social distancing strategy is a difficult play. But in collectivist Arab societies, where socializing is a moral responsibility and in-group connection and out-group disconnection creates a societal foundation, social...
With the growth and increasing visibility of mutual aid during the coronavirus pandemic, Daniel Lees Fryer looks at how mutual aid groups and the individuals involved in them are represented in the media. Amidst...
Media tales of touch during Covid By InTouch Over the life of the InTouch project (starting in 2016) we have kept our feelers out for when touch hits the news headlines. While each year...
I was chatting with a friend last night who is much more numerate than me. He mentioned casually that ‘they’ always use big numbers for the ‘good’ things (commitments to government spending in crisis)...
Understanding communication in a global pandemic and the future of social interaction – Towards a collective semiotics In this post, I’m sharing with you my reflections on why I believe it’s necessary and urgent...
PanMeMic is the acronym for Pandemic Meaning Making of Interaction and Communication. We like it also because it’s made of Pan + Me + Mic. And it has ‘Meme‘ in it. Pan = ‘all’...
We want to join forces with everybody who is interested in how the pandemicis changing our ways of communicating and interacting – to share reflections,observations, fears and good practices – and to try together...
We are a group of semioticians based in different countries worldwide. We studymeaning making, communication and social interaction. Read and see more on who we are here: The Collective PanMeMicMore Posts
Pandemic Meaning Making of Interaction and Communication We want to start to make meaning of how communication and social interaction is changing in the global pandemic and understand how this will impact our practices...
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