Multimodality & Society Journal
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Critique & innovation at the centre of contemporary multimodal debate. Promotes, consolidates & advances a plurality of multimodal theories, methods & research
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Their dream hospital was house-like and had ‘colourful windows, flowers, and lots of textures’ – each different colour and material was to be a different area of the hospital…More here -
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Could artists use even more approaches, to bring about a deeper understanding of the relationships between horses, humans and landscape? Miranda Creswell’s piece can be read in full here -
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We have many papers that are open access in our online archive - for example ’Cohesion in physical movie releases: developing a framework for the multimodal analysis of complex three-dimensional packaging’ accessible here -
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’Stronger together: Moving towards a combined multimodal and intermedial model’ by Jensen and Schirrmacher is one of the papers available in our library here -
‘How do people read and judge online baking blog recipes containing multimodal instructions?’… Read the full paper by Ielka van der Sluis and Hanna Mellema here -
‘What forms can harm reduction take when we invoke touch? Haptic Care is an exhibition that invites us to connect with harm reduction advocate-artists based in the U.S. who are using creative means to address drugs, drug policy…’Read the full paper here -
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‘Our semiotic landscape study is inspired by the framework of multimodality. We trace the industrial Tower resemiotized and remediated…’ Read the full paper (open access) here -
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‘This study will explore how multimodal text production can be used to practice and enhance students’ critical awareness of social media texts…’ Read the full text here (open access) -
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Our call for papers for our 2026 special issue on ‘textu(r)alities: Semiotics, bodies, texts’ is now open! Send your abstracts to emilio.amideo@uniparthenope.it and rodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.br by the 24th of January 2025. More details here -
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The paper ‘Innovating visitor research within museums: Concepts, tools and practices’ is now published as part of our special issue - read it here (Open Access) -
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‘Museum flythroughs are complex digital multimodal ensembles that use elevated camera angles, 3D animation, AI imagery and drone footage to ‘fly’ the viewer over and through a museum or exhibition… ‘ Read the article in full here -
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Our Annual debate is sponsored by Sage @Sage_Publishing
What would it be like if we could hug or touch digitally across distance? How might this shape our sense of connection? How might we establish trust or protect our privacy/safety? Part of @ESRC Festival of Social Science
@uclknowledgelab @IOE_London @ESRC
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‘This special issue proposes multimodality as an integrated and versatile methodological and interpretative framework for museum research and practice, while showcasing innovative methods as a way of advancing multimodality research…’ Access issue here -
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‘This study investigates the virtual semiotic landscape of a South African online advertisement campaign, Vagina Varsity, by sanitary towel company Libresse®’… Read the paper in full here -
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All of our issues are available online and many of them are open access. What about reading for example something from our latest issue here? -
Congratulations to Professors @CareyJewitt @IOE_London, Alison Shell @ArtsHumsUCL, @LucyFOBrien @UCLPhilosophy, Phiroze Vasunia @GrandLat, and Jennifer Robinson @UCLgeography who have been elected as Fellows of @BritishAcademy_ today.
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Delighted Carey Jewitt one of our editors has been made a fellow of the British Academy
The British Academy is delighted to welcome 86 new Fellows!
We are first and foremost a Fellowship organisation, going all the way back to our founding by Royal Charter in 1902 - our Fellows truly are the heartbeat of the Academy.
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The way the images work with the text draws attention to the states of confusion and disruption to the daily life of the experience of pandemic play, the jarring nature of the silent streets and locked gates… Read the article in full here (open access) -
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The word ‘Multi-modality’ implies a focus on the integration of multiple semiotic modes or resources (such as gesture, image, language and music) in communication and social interaction… Full paper available (open access) here -
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