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View article: Moods, Bots, and Bodies: University Students’ Emotional and Physiological responses to Human vs. GenAI Chatbots
Moods, Bots, and Bodies: University Students’ Emotional and Physiological responses to Human vs. GenAI Chatbots Open
As generative AI (Gen AI) chatbots become more common as learning partners, questions remain about students’ emotional and physiological responses to them. This study used a multimodal design to compare university students’ experiences dur…
View article: Mobile Screen Time and Bilingual Children’s Dual Language Learning
Mobile Screen Time and Bilingual Children’s Dual Language Learning Open
This study investigates how the quantity and quality of digital media use influence the language outcomes of bilingual children in Singapore. The sample includes 140 children aged 4 years 4 months to 7 years 3 months. Mobile screen use was…
View article: Emotional (Dis/Un)entanglement in Becoming an Academic in the Neoliberal Era: Dialogising Transnational Accounts of Being, Thinking and Feeling
Emotional (Dis/Un)entanglement in Becoming an Academic in the Neoliberal Era: Dialogising Transnational Accounts of Being, Thinking and Feeling Open
This paper explores the complex emotions and affective challenges that academics might experience in their journey of becoming within neoliberal higher education contexts transnationally. These are examined in entanglement with intricate s…
View article: Multimodality, AI and Education
Multimodality, AI and Education Open
This is an interview with Fei Victor Lim (FVL) by Antonia Dilamar Araújo (ADA), Clarice Gualberto (CG), and Michelle Soares Pinheiro (MSP), in which Professor Lim outlines his view on Multimodality, Artificial Intelligence, and Education.
View article: Representing youth as vulnerable social media users: a social semiotic analysis of the promotional materials from <i>The Social Dilemma</i>
Representing youth as vulnerable social media users: a social semiotic analysis of the promotional materials from <i>The Social Dilemma</i> Open
While participation in social media has become everyday practice among young people, there have been few studies examining how youth as social media users are represented in the media discourse. Focusing on the promotional materials of an …
View article: Editorial multimodality and society
Editorial multimodality and society Open
This issue, the first of volume 4, marks the start of Multimodality & Society’s fourth year and provides a good moment to look across the past 3 years to review and reflect on the journal’s contribution to multimodality. Multimodality …
View article: Value and Challenges in Using a Collaborative Critical Reading and Learning Analytics System: A Cross-Case Analysis of Two High Schools
Value and Challenges in Using a Collaborative Critical Reading and Learning Analytics System: A Cross-Case Analysis of Two High Schools Open
WiREAD+ is an augmented web-based collaborative critical reading and learning analytics environment that was developed to scaffold and engage students in collaborative dialogue around online texts.This paper reports on the trial of WiREAD+…
View article: Editorial: Transduction in evolving contexts of intermodal meaning making: Moving meaning across media, modes and multiple realities
Editorial: Transduction in evolving contexts of intermodal meaning making: Moving meaning across media, modes and multiple realities Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Commun., 18 January 2023Sec. Multimodality of Communication Volume 8 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1138753
View article: Popularizing science – Analyzing the presenter’s multimodal orchestration in a TED Talk
Popularizing science – Analyzing the presenter’s multimodal orchestration in a TED Talk Open
In today’s neoliberal economy, digital platforms have led to a proliferation in science popularization where scientists package their messages for the wider public. Our study explores how science ideas are disseminated in one of the most w…
View article: Designing Knowledge Dissemination in a Digital Era – Analysing TED Talk’s Multimodal Orchestration
Designing Knowledge Dissemination in a Digital Era – Analysing TED Talk’s Multimodal Orchestration Open
Online learning has gained increasing attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers face social exigencies to design ways of knowledge dissemination in online instruction. We posit that understanding how knowledge can be represented in …
View article: The Development of a Parental Questionnaire (QQ-MediaSEED) on Bilingual Children’s Quantity and Quality of Digital Media Use at Home
The Development of a Parental Questionnaire (QQ-MediaSEED) on Bilingual Children’s Quantity and Quality of Digital Media Use at Home Open
The quantity and quality of children's digital screen media exposure is an emerging area of early childhood studies because of its strong social relevance, and this has been particularly true since the COVID-19 pandemic. The few existing p…
View article: Considerations on the Curation of Educational Apps for Digital Play and Learning
Considerations on the Curation of Educational Apps for Digital Play and Learning Open
Mobile devices have become increasingly ubiquitous in the contemporary communication landscape. Riding this trend, educational apps have proliferated the market, with many which claim to support and improve children’s learning and literacy…
View article: A Metalanguage for Learning: Rebalancing the Cognitive with the Socio-Material
A Metalanguage for Learning: Rebalancing the Cognitive with the Socio-Material Open
Technology has enabled new ways of meaning-making in the digital age, incidentally bringing with it inequities in education as a result of the differing access, resources, and experiences of students. These inequities may be rendered invis…
View article: Design in Gunther Kress’s social semiotics
Design in Gunther Kress’s social semiotics Open
Gunther Kress’s multimodal and social semiotic theory of communication has moved beyond the realm of linguistics, which originally framed his work, and has reached out to inform other fields, such as those of education, museum studies, as …
View article: How to teach digital reading?
How to teach digital reading? Open
This paper offers a discussion of the knowledge, skills, and awareness involved in digital reading. Reading, in this paper, is used in the broader sense to include deriving meaning from media on a digital screen. This paper synthesises key…
View article: Correction to: Developing a systemic functional approach to teach multimodal literacy
Correction to: Developing a systemic functional approach to teach multimodal literacy Open
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
View article: Developing a systemic functional approach to teach multimodal literacy
Developing a systemic functional approach to teach multimodal literacy Open
This article argues for the importance of teaching multimodal literacy in schools so as to adequately equip students to navigate the multimodal communicative landscape. Developing multimodal literacy in students is about developing in them…