Visual communication in practice: A texto-material approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City

With more than 2 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the most important mobile technologies in the world. Accordingly, scholarly interest in WhatsApp has grown in recent years. However, studies have tended to separate WhatsApp’s visual and textual elements from the analysis of its technological infras...

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Autores: Gómez Cruz, Edgar, Siles González, Ignacio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Affordance
Latin America
Mobile communication
Messaging apps
Textomateriality
WhatsApp
Visual culture
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spellingShingle Visual communication in practice: A texto-material approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City
Gómez Cruz, Edgar
Affordance
Latin America
Mobile communication
Messaging apps
Textomateriality
WhatsApp
Visual culture
title_short Visual communication in practice: A texto-material approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City
title_full Visual communication in practice: A texto-material approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City
title_fullStr Visual communication in practice: A texto-material approach to WhatsApp in Mexico City
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Siles González, Ignacio
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Siles González, Ignacio
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Latin America
Mobile communication
Messaging apps
Textomateriality
WhatsApp
Visual culture
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Latin America
Mobile communication
Messaging apps
Textomateriality
WhatsApp
Visual culture
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