Visual syntax in social media


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Modern technologies have fundamentally changed the sphere of communication. One of the interesting social media characteristics is the prevalence of the visual transmission mode. Regardless of the fact that photo-rhetoric in social networks usually lacks complexity and is often limited to the statement of facts, there exist more complex forms of visual syntax. The article analyses the options for creating a twofold semantic conception of images, enabling communication to expand temporally. Moreover, there have been demonstrated the visual metaphors in social networks as exemplified by 2020 gestalt.

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Daria S. Bylieva

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

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Email: bylieva_ds@spbstu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7956-4647

PhD, Associte professor, Department of Social Sciences, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Russian Federation, 29, Polytechnicheskaya Street, St. Petersburg, 195251, Russian Federation

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