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Seminar I Touching the future: Multimodality Technology and Pedagogy

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  • Date

    29 Nov 2023

  • Organiser

    Department of English and Communication

  • Time

    17:00 - 18:00

  • 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

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, Multimodality & Society, and Visual CommunicationShe 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, InTouch 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 Digital Touch (Polity Press, 2024) with Sara Price, Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication (2020) and numerous articles including in New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Qualitative Research, and The Senses and Society.

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