Multimodality & Society
eISSN:
26349809 | ISSN:
26349795 | Current volume: 6 | Current issue: 2
Frequency: Quarterly
Multimodality & Society is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes research from a wide array of perspectives in the field of multimodality. It consolidates and advances the development of multimodal research theory, methodologies, and contributes to empirical understandings of how multimodal communication shapes and is shaped by society. Alongside the standard research article form, Multimodality & Society encourages innovative ways of publishing research and practice-based reflection, including the multimodal sensation and practitioner reflection formats.
Multimodality & Society aims to publish front-line research which understands meaning-making, representation and interaction to always include multiple modes of communication. The field of multimodality has developed rapidly over the past 30 years, connecting researchers from the humanities, social sciences, education, computer science and beyond to systematically address changes in society and the implications for multimodal communication. This includes investigating the uses of new media and technologies such as generative AI. It is a forum for discussion and development of theoretical concepts, methods and frameworks for collection, analysis and interpretation of multimodal data. More specifically, Multimodality & Society welcomes high-quality research with a scope that emphasizes:
- accounting for a full range of modes, moving beyond the visual and language into the realms of the sensory, spatial, material, embodied and so on;
- critiquing, mapping, consolidating, and advancing multimodal theory, concepts and methods;
- exploring the potentials of interdisciplinary perspectives in the field of multimodality;
- investigating the relation between human creativity/agency and automation in multimodal meaning-making practices;
- interrogating the digital and “post-digital” in multimodality;
- foregrounding multimodal interaction and texts-in-action, rather than texts or objects in isolation;
- offering global and international perspectives on the role of material, social and cultural resources in diverse, multimodal contexts.
The journal engages with the social landscape of interaction and communication, drawing on multimodal work undertaken within a range of fields of application (for example, health and well-being, work, formal and informal learning, leisure, governance and politics), and with respect to a range of topics (for instance, identity and social justice). Multimodal theory has significant international reach, and the journal focuses on the international social landscape of interaction and communication.
Multimodality & Society accepts the following article types:
Research papers: These include an even balance of theoretical/methodological papers and empirically grounded research papers (6-8,000 words).
Practitioner reflections: These engage with the ideas, practices and concerns of practitioners (e.g. architects, designers, educators, crafts people) working in fields where multimodality and multimodal tools and practices are central (1-2,000 words).
Multimodal sensations: These extend the notion of the visual essay, utilising the digital potential of the journal (4-8 pages).
Book reviews: These include reviews of books, exhibitions, analytical multimodal research tools, and online resources (1-2,000 words).
Editors
| Elisabetta Adami | University of Leeds, UK |
| Arlene Archer | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Anders Björkvall | Örebro University, Sweden |
| Clarice Gualberto | Universidad Federal do Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Carey Jewitt | University College London, UK |
| Lalitha Vasudevan | Teachers College, Columbia University, Columbia |
| Fei Victor Lim | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Editorial Advisory Board
| Ahmed Abdel-Raheem | University of Bremen, Germany |
| Adeyemi Adegoju | Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria |
| Danielle Almeida | Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil |
| Felix Banda | University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
| Jeff Bezemer | University College London, UK |
| Mehul Bhatt | Örebro University, Sweden |
| Wendy Bowcher | Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China |
| Christopher Brown | Minnesota State University, USA |
| Kristina Danielsson | Linnaeus University, Sweden |
| Zhang Delu | Tongji University, China |
| Sophia Diamantoupoulou | University College London, UK |
| Emilia Djonov | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Nina Eidsheim | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| William Feng | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| Vaike Fors | Halmstad University, Sweden |
| Øystein Gilje | Oslo University, Norway |
| Anna Harris | Maastricht University, the Netherlands |
| Anna Hickey-Moody | RMIT University, Australia |
| Tuomo Hiippala | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Markus Höellerer | UNSW Sydney Business School, Australia |
| David Howes | Concordia University, Canada |
| Hsuan l. Hsu | University of California, USA |
| Annelies Kusters | Herriot-Watt University, UK |
| Theo Van Leeuwen | University of Southern Denmark |
| Fredrik Lindstrand | University of Arts, Crafts, and Design, Sweden |
| Deborah Lupton | University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia |
| David Machin | Shanghai International University, China |
| Arianna Maiorani | Loughborough University, UK |
| Simon McKerrell | Glasgow Caledonian University, UK |
| Ilaria Moschini | University of Florence, Italy |
| Nina Nørgaard | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Kay O’Halloran | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Mark Paterson | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Amiena Peck | University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
| Bruna Petreca | Royal College of Art, UK |
| Gitte Rasmussen | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Jennifer Rowsell | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Rose Satiko Hikiji | University of São Paulo, Brazil |
| Sachi Sekimoto | Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA |
| Ulrike Schroeder | Universidade Federal do Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Chiao-I Tseng | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Phillip Vannini | Royal Roads University, Canada |
| Dylan Yamada-Rice | Royal College of Art, UK |
| Michele Zappavigna | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Yiqiong Zhang | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China |