Toward multimodal inquiry: opportunities, challenges and implications of multimodality for research and scholarship

Power Dynamics in Field-Level Events: A Narrative Approach

“…A modal is the medium or semiotic field through which meaning is constructed (Goodwin, 2000; Literat et al, 2018). Most studies focus on words (Pickering, 2017), but many other modalities are at work,including the visual, spatial, emotional, and the embodied.…”

“…Most studies focus on words (Pickering, 2017), but many other modalities are at work,including the visual, spatial, emotional, and the embodied. Each modal offers a unique window into the world and a way to experience (Literat et al, 2018) and perform (McVee & Carse, 2016) social reality. Various modalities, working together, constrain, enable, and co-construct understandings (Höllerer, Jancsary, & Grafstrom, 2018; Meyer, Jancsary, Höllerer, & Boxenbaum, 2018).…”

Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article: ““A Pencil for your Thoughts”: Participatory Drawing as a Visual Research Method with Children and Youth”

“…Since publishing that article, I expanded by work on participatory multimodal research methodologies by publishing on participatory drawing (Literat, 2013c) and multimodal research as a challenge to the hegemony of text-based knowledge in academic scholarship (Literat et al, 2017).…”

“…Exciting possibilities also stem from the marriage of pen-and-paper approaches like participatory drawing with digital modes of representation such as digital illustration or simple animation apps. As I’ve argued elsewhere (e.g., Literat et al, 2017, p. 7), ultimately, good research is about rightness of fit, and “modes of scholarship should be flexible enough to adapt to the context and dynamics we are trying to represent.”…”

Comunicando o conhecimento acadêmico além do texto acadêmico escrito: uma análise autoetnográfica do experimento da instalação Mirror Palace of Democracy

“…Isso então abre caminho para o argumento de que, como nenhuma hegemonia é total (Mouffe, 2005, p. 18), outras formas (ou modos) de comunicar o conhecimento acadêmico ainda são possíveis e até desejáveis 3 . A particularidade de cada modo também produz oportunidades para a comunicação do conhecimento, já que cada forma particular tem suas próprias possibilidades (affordances) (Gibson, 1979;Norman, 1988) e sua combinação pode enriquecer a academia, porque, como notam Literat et al (2018) sobre o conhecimento multimodal, "possui potencial para investigações, análises e representações mais abrangentes e inclusivas que podem ser social, cultural e politicamente transformadoras" (p. 569).…”