The time and date of the 2023 Gunther Kress Scholarly Impact Award Address delivered by Dr. Carey Jewitt has changed.  To attend this talk, you will need to register using the link. The talk will no longer be held during the AERA meeting.


Date: April 28, 2023

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm  US Eastern Time


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My Multimodal Journey to Digital Touch

Dr. Carey Jewitt, University College, London, UK

In this talk I revisit my induction into Multimodality as a researcher working with Professor Gunther Kress on his early multimodal projects on the learning and teaching of school science and English. I point to my developing research interest in digital technologies and how this stretched the multimodal theory and concepts I was working with and initiated my interest in the digital remediation of touch. I introduce touch as a kind of ‘final frontier’ for multimodality and how researching touch and digital touch required further innovation of multimodal theory and methods, notably bringing multimodality into conversation with sensory, artistic and design methods. Finally I offer some findings from the InTouch project which explored the social implications of digital touch technologies.