I am pleased to announce that Lesley Gourlay and I have decided to work with Petar Jandrić (Chief Editor of PDSE) to compile a special issue of the journal on ‘Postdigital / More-Than-Digital Meaning-Making’.

The study of how meaning is made is distributed across various subfields, including applied linguistics, literacy studies, and social semiotics. Arguably, these fields have been characterised by a fluidity in terms of scope and boundaries. Although this may have led to an over preponderance of boundary patrolling, it is – we suggest – an overall strength, in that these fields of scholarship can readily flex to encompass social, political and mediatic change in meaning-making, drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological resources from other disciplines. 

You can read the full Call for Papers for this special issue and instructions for submission here