“Multimodality is a theory which looks at the many different modes that people use to communicate with each other and to express themselves.”——Kress.G. Introduction Following the podcast : Multimodality, knowledge to go! Laila, Leah, Nina , and I recorded, I want to elaborate on one of our key topics, history of Multimodality. If you are …
Reflection of 3D model
During the COVID-19 time, what impressed me the most was the rumors that Chinese medicine can resist the virus. This has a great impact on me, because my family is also one of the thousands of people who stock drugs in China. Until now, I don’t know whether the news that Chinese medicine can resist …
Minneapolis Institute of Art：A “new” museum
Digital Collections have a still developing role in the memory ecosystem as the space between traditional physical collections and our ‘lived’ memory (Haskins, 2007, p. 401). However, we have to admit that digital archives and collections are, then, like their traditional counterparts, media for producing knowledge. With this premise, there are lots of confusion. For …
Multimodality, Knowledge to go: The History of Multimodality
‘Multimodality’ is a term that is now widely used in the academic world，which was first coined in the mid-1990s. It is used, for instance, by Charles Goodwin, in a seminal article that he submitted to the Journal of Pragmatics in 1998 (Goodwin, 2000)Since then, a myriad of conferences, monographs, edited volumes and other academic discussion …
The Quantified Self: Analyzing the Sleep Quality Monitoring Application Snail Sleep
Introduction With the unceasing development on the digital technology, a variety of tasks can be conducted that are unprecedented in before. Such evolution allows people not only to be more capable in their daily life and work, but more importantly render them to have a better knowledge of their own self. To that term, health-tracking …
Transformation in Digital Cultures
This course focuses on digitalization and its transformations for society and culture. Digitalization, the process of integrating digital technologies into all areas of our lives, has produced new interfaces between society, culture and doing social research. We will discuss how the architecture of the web controls but also enables user practices. User and (online) communities …
Real Virtualities
Media extend our senses and our engagement with the world—as Marshall McLuhan, the father of media studies, famously said. In this process they do not leave things untouched, but transform how we experience our environment and how we act in it. Through news media we are an immediate witness to events all over the globe. …
