Multimodality

Reshaping Anthropology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2295563
AutoresMark R Westmoreland (0000-0002-5669-8781, Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen51
Número1
Páginas173-194
Fecha de publicación2022-10-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
EditorialAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-121319-071409
OpenAlexW4285800569
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas33
Referencias citadas131

Multimodality offers anthropologists an inflection on the way we do research, produce scholarship, teach students, and relate to diverse publics. Advancing an expanding array of tools, practices, and concepts, multimodality signals a change in the way we pay attention and attend to the diverse possibilities for understanding the human experience. Multimodality recognizes the way smartphones, social media, and digital software transform research dynamics in unprecedented ways, while also drawing upon long-standing practices of recording and presenting research through images, sounds, objects, and text. Rather than flatten out ethnographic participant observation into logocentric practices of people-writing, multimodal ethnographies diversify their modes of inquiry to produce more-than-textual mediations of sensorial research experiences. By emphasizing kaleidoscopic qualities that give shape to an emergent, multidimensional, and diversifying anthropology, multimodality proposes alternatives to enduring and delimiting dichotomies, particularly text/image. These new configurations invite unrealized disciplinary constellations and research collaborations to emerge, but also require overhauling the infrastructures that support training, dissemination, and assessment

Affordance · Discipline · Epistemology · Ethnography · Human–computer interaction · Linguistics · Multimodality · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism