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*Translation and pandemic communication on Instagram

An analysis of three Manitoban accounts
  • Renée Desjardins

    Renée Desjardins is an associate professor at the School of Translation at the Université de Saint-Boniface. She has been researching translation and social media for almost fifteen years and is the author of Translation and Social Media: In Theory, in Training and in Professional Practice and a number of other publications connecting these two areas. Her most recent research work has focused on translation strategy and public health communication in Manitoba during the pandemic, which has received institutional funding support, as well as translation in the influencer economy, which has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

         and Marika Laczko

    Marika Laczko is a research assistant and a graduate of the School of Translation at the Université de Saint-Boniface. She has collaborated on a number of research projects with Prof. Renée Desjardins (Université de Saint-Boniface), including a project on translation strategy and public health communication in Manitoba during the pandemic, which received institutional funding support.
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Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation
This chapter is in the book Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Part I Introduction
  5. The spread of narratives across medial, linguistic, and cultural boundaries in the age of media convergence 2
  6. Part II Transmedia in films and series
  7. A postmodern western or a cinematic TV series? 32
  8. The (dis)appearance of Don Juan in Tallinn 55
  9. Part III Transmedia beyond film
  10. A quest for coherence 74
  11. When transmedia music meets translation 99
  12. Part IV Transmedia in the pre-digital period
  13. From romanticism to Nazism 122
  14. Part V Transmedia in nonfictional worlds
  15. *Translation and pandemic communication on Instagram 142
  16. Parenting content in translation on online social media 165
  17. Translation and transmedia in memes spreading and sharing 188
  18. Part VI Transmedia literacy
  19. Learning and teaching Estonian literary classics through transmedia 210
  20. Bionotes 231
  21. Index 235
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.167.07des

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Part I Introduction
  5. The spread of narratives across medial, linguistic, and cultural boundaries in the age of media convergence 2
  6. Part II Transmedia in films and series
  7. A postmodern western or a cinematic TV series? 32
  8. The (dis)appearance of Don Juan in Tallinn 55
  9. Part III Transmedia beyond film
  10. A quest for coherence 74
  11. When transmedia music meets translation 99
  12. Part IV Transmedia in the pre-digital period
  13. From romanticism to Nazism 122
  14. Part V Transmedia in nonfictional worlds
  15. *Translation and pandemic communication on Instagram 142
  16. Parenting content in translation on online social media 165
  17. Translation and transmedia in memes spreading and sharing 188
  18. Part VI Transmedia literacy
  19. Learning and teaching Estonian literary classics through transmedia 210
  20. Bionotes 231
  21. Index 235
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