Seminar I Touching the future: Multimodality Technology and Pedagogy
Seminars / Lectures / Workshops
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Date
29 Nov 2023
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Organiser
Department of English and Communication
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Time
17:00 - 18:00
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Venue
R507, PolyU campus / Online via Zoom
Speaker
Professor Carey Jewitt
Summary
Advances in technology have had a significant impact on how we communicate and interact. This shapes how we can think, act/do, imagine, and learn and is foundational for pedagogy. How we use technologies is therefore a fundamental force shaping pedagogy and its future. The theoretical framework of Multimodality places social and cultural aspects of communication and interaction at its centre and thus avoids a techno-centric approach. Focusing on touch technologies, I argue that Multimodality is a powerful lens to understand the complexity of how technologies impact how we communicate and interact, their increasing digital amplification of bodily and tactile possibilities, and their implications for the future of pedagogy. The understanding and interdisciplinary collaborations that multimodality offers is vital to foster the sustainable use of technology for pedagogy and beyond.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Carey Jewitt
UCL Institute of Education, University College London, United Kingdom
Carey Jewitt is Professor of Technology and Learning UCL Knowledge Lab in the Dept of Culture, Communication and Media, Institute of Education (UCL), and Chair of UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain. She brings her interdisciplinary training from Fine Art and Media, Sociology, and Multimodal Discourse to research how the use of digital technologies shapes people’s interaction, communication and learning in a variety of contexts. Throughout her work, Carey is engaged in interdisciplinary methodological innovation, and has made a significant contribution to the development of multimodal theory and methods, including as founding editor of two international SAGE journals, UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain, and UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain. She has led many interdisciplinary research projects on the social aspects of digital technology and her work has been funded by the ERC, ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy and charities. Her most recent projects include, UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain is an ERC Consolidator Award which investigates the sociality of digital touch technologies for future communication, and MODE which developed the use of multimodal methods for researching digital learning and communication. Her recent publications include the book . (Polity Press, 2024) with Sara Price, . (2020) and numerous articles including in . , . , . , and . .
