Multimodal Communication
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Research subject
- Computer Science
- English
- History
- Media and Communication Studies
- Musicology
- Rhetoric
- Swedish Language
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The research group Multimodal Communication is interested in how different forms of communication create preconditions and limitations for meaning-making in relation to social, political and didactic phenomena and challenges. The group includes researchers from the subject areas of Swedish Language, History, English, Rhetoric and Media and Communication Science as well as Computer Science and Musicology. The research group has a joint interest in how semiotic modalities such as photography, language, sound, architecture, movement, color, texture and gesture – and their multimodal combinations – are used in meaning-making processes from historical and contemporary perspectives.
The research group conducts theory and method development as well as empirical studies within the field of multimodality. The theory and method driven research partly deals with queries of how social phenomena such as affect, destruction and argumentation can be understood as multimodal practices. Theory and method development is conducted through interdisciplinary collaborations, for example, together with researchers in computer science and pedagogy. The applied studies are primarily conducted in the fields of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics, sociolinguistics, critical and visual rhetoric, new literacy studies and media history, and are mainly based on qualitative semiotic and rhetorical analyses, ethnographic observational studies and sociolinguistic experiments as well as AI-laboratory studies. Within the research group, "classic" multimodal texts, where writing, image and layout interact, are analyzed, but also artefacts such as clothing, interior design and architecture.
The research group also offers the course Multimodality: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, 7.5 credits, within the framework of the postgraduate subject Humanistic Studies.
John Bateman, Professor in English at Bremen University, is honorary member of the research group.
Schedule for Multimodal Communication
Publications from the research group about multimodal communication
Researchers
- Helen Andersson
- Mehul Bhatt
- Anders Björkvall
- Eric Borgström
- Mats Deutschmann
- Cansu Elmadagli
- Göran Eriksson
- Marie Gelang
- David Karlander
- Lame Maatla Kenalemang-Palm
- Åsa Kroon
- Mats Landqvist
- Jonathan Lilliedahl
- Patrik Lundell
- Ida Melander
- Noah Roderick
- Assimakis Tseronis
- Gustav Westberg
- Anna Brynhildsen, PhD student
- Maria Darwish, PhD student
- Chi-Chieh Huang, PhD student
- Denny Jansson, PhD student
- Julius Monsen, PhD student
- Elin Stenberg, PhD student
- Piia Suomalainen, PhD student
- Wenting Zhao, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Raising of Awareness through Virtual Experiencing (C-RAVE)
- Antisemitic manifestations - the semiotics of antisemitism in Sweden and experiences among Jewish youth
- Communication of "good" foods and healthy lifestyles
- Connecting digital and analog literacy: The potential of the digital pencil for text creation in school (DigiPen)
- Embodied semiotics of the extreme-right
- Inclusive participation in higher education: A multimodal genre perspective from Sweden and South Africa (IpSSA)
- Information Highways of the 19th Century: The public sphere as newspaper infrastructure and shared content
- Labour market effects of artificial intelligence: A study of knowledge-intensive business services
- Multimodality and intermediality: Humanist research in a digital world (MIDWorld)
- Newbreed
- Nonverbal behaviour as argumentation in election campaign interviews
- Raising Awareness through Virtual Experiencing (RAVE)
- Rhetorical actio: the power of body language
- Sámi for sale: multimodal commodification of indigenousness
- The visual rhetoric of store-window mannequins
Research funding bodies
- Logitech
