Carey Jewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 193874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carey Jewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carey |
| FAMILY NAME | Jewitt |
| SIGNATURE | JEWITT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2971-984X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 509 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
An Agenda for Digital Communication Design Beyond Human-Centric Replication
In this section, we feature reports from conferences, symposia, workshops, and similar events, focusing on discussions where the boundaries of HCI and UX are being challenged and where debate is lively and ongoing
A Design‐Led Study on the Coupling of Human Wellbeing and Circular Consumer Experiences
This paper reports on an exploratory design‐led case study on how to achieve a stronger coupling of human wellbeing and material resource flow as a strategy to contribute to reducing textile consumption for the Circular Economy. The significance of wellbeing and sustainability for consumer experiences is discussed. The Wellbeing Framework for Consumer Experiences in the Circular Economy of the Textile Industry is introduced, this engages with bot…
The wellbeing framework for consumer experiences in the circular economy of the textile industry
Conspicuous consumption, driven by immediate satisfaction, novelty, and status, contradicts the Circular Economy’s (CE) goals of reducing consumption and waste. As the CE evolves into a global mission supported by legislation, it must address overconsumption by adopting a humanist, design-focused, participatory approach that fosters alternative cultures of consumption. This paper investigates the potential of leveraging human wellbeing as a strat…
Provocation: Stop Replicating and Start Reimagining Digital Communication for the Sensing Body
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: A study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds
46 (6): 1149-1160. doi:10.1111/bjet.12191 ], a quantitative description of the index, and a qualitative interaction analysis of children's play. Results show how play with iPads is characterised as less ludic than play with other artefacts, and diverges from the age-typical norms of play. We discuss what these results might mean for children's play in contemporary early childhood settings and for children's learning
Epilogue
Like the authors in this special issue and many others, I found Gunther Kress and his ideas insightful and inspiring.He generated many significant concepts, 'tools' for thinking with which, underpinned by a set of social semiotic principles and political commitments at the centre of his work, laid the foundation for social semiotic multimodality.During his lifetime and since his sudden sad death, multimodal scholars (including myself) have worked…
Collaborative Robots and Tangled Passages of Tactile-Affects
Collaborative robots are increasingly entering industrial contexts and workflows. These contexts are not just locations for production, they are vibrant social and sensory environments. For better or for worse, their entry brings potential to reorganize established tactile and affective dynamics that encompass production processes. There is still much to be learned about these highly contextual and complex dynamics in HRI research and the design …
Thresholds of Touch
We are in a crisis of touch, prompting a need to reconsider and revalue our tactile behavior and the reciprocity of touching (Kearney, 2021). This crisis provided a starting point for Thresholds of Touch, the performance experiment that underpins this video article. Thresholds was devised through a two- year interdisciplinary collaboration between the authors – an artist/researcher, social researcher, and sound composer/researcher. The performanc…
Feeling our way: Methodological explorations on researching touch through uncertainty
This paper argues that methodological uncertainty, such as that experienced by the social research community through the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022) is, and has always been, a vital part of the research landscape. Whilst recognising the many damaging effects of the uncertainties of the pandemic on research and researchers, we home in on the potential of the challenges raised by uncertainty as a force for methodological innovation. We introduce …
Interactive skin through a social- sensory speculative lens
This paper uses a speculative lens to explore the social and sensory trajectories of Interactive Skin, a class of skin-worn epidermal devices that augment the human body in ways that are significant for affective techno-touch. The paper presents and discusses the use of a speculative narrative on Interactive Skin futures produced through an exploratory research-collaboration with a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lab, combining data from specula…
A provocative call to engage with social and sensory aspects of touch
The social and sensory aspects of touch are critical for human communication, yet the challenges of haptic technology development and a focus on the technological means that digital touch communication often fails to realise the potential and promise of touch. The Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in Crisis responds to this through a call to action to rethink and reimagine digital touch. It offers 10 provocative statements as a resource for how …
How pedagogical relations in early years settings are reconfigured by interactive touchscreens
While interactive touchscreens are currently entering into educational practice, little is known about what this means for learning in early childhood and, in particular, how touchscreens shape action and communication. In this paper, we examine the interactions of 2‐year‐olds and their teachers in a multilingual preschool in Sweden. We analyse the communicative environment between the children, teachers and shared touchscreens and books in the c…
The re-mediating effects of bio-sensing in the context of parental touch practices
This article investigates the remediating effect of bio-sensing technology on touch practices in the context of parent-infant interaction. We examine how the entry of a biosensing technology into the social, sensory and technological ecology of family homes interacts with the ways in which parents and babies know each other and communicate through touch. The paper centres on an exploratory case study of the Owlet Smart Sock (OSS), a bio-sensing b…
Filtering Touch: An Ethnography of Dirt, Danger, and Industrial Robots
“Industry 4.0” marks the advent of a new wave of industrial robotics designed to bring increased automation to “extreme” touch practices and enhance productivity. This article presents an ethnography of touch in two industrial settings using fourth generation industrial robots (a Glass Factory and a Waste Management Center) to critically explore the social and sensorial implications of such technologies for workers. We attend to manifestations of…
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during Covid-19: An analysis of UK newspapers
This article considers newspapers’ role in shaping the sociotechnical imaginaries of touch, and emerging technologies that digitally mediate touch. It examines the discourses of touch and personal relationships at a distance that circulated in major British broadsheet newspapers during the 2020 outbreak of coronavirus disease-19, alongside dominant narratives of touch and remote communication in the previous 5 years. In doing so, the article demo…
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots
Reflections on bodies in lockdown
Supporting Family Scaffolding and Collaboration Through Digital Interactive Tabletop Exhibits
This article presents a qualitative analysis of family interaction around digital interactive tabletop exhibits. Parents play a teaching role in museum visits, using strategies from encouragement, to giving directions about using exhibits, to offering explanations that connect an exhibit to children’s previous experiences. Touchscreens and touch tables offer different ways of engaging families in museums, raising questions around how these intera…
Making sense of digitally remediated touch in virtual reality experiences
Digitally-mediated parent–baby touch and the formation of subjectivities
This article examines how the use of emergent smart baby monitors re-mediates parent–baby touch, notions of connection, parental sensing and the interpretation of babies’ bodies, and contributes to the formation of subjectivities. Domestic baby monitors are a mid 20th-century phenomenon which normalizes parental anxieties. While baby monitoring is not new, the ‘next generation’ of wearable bio-sensing baby monitors offers a different relationship…
Sensoria: An exploratory interdisciplinary framework for researching multimodal & sensory experiences
This paper describes the development and salience of an original and innovative interdisciplinary approach, Sensoria, that combines methods and techniques from social science and performance to address the methodological challenges of researching sensory/multimodal experiences. It sets out the core components and methodological principles that underpin the approach and uses an illustrative example to show how it can facilitate research on hard to…
Tribute to Gunther Kress (1940–2019): Reflecting on visuals that shaped his work
Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary
This article makes legible emergent social imaginaries of digital touch for remote communication in personal relationships, with attention to digital touch interfaces. It draws on data from rapid prototyping research workshops with apprentice professionals embedded within digital communication. Touch is discussed with respect to four analytical themes: materiality, body, emplacement and temporality. We illustrate how participants’ past and presen…
Family touch practices and learning experiences in the museum
This paper investigates how family museum visitors crafted learning through interaction with one another and the touch objects of an exhibition. Through a case study of seven families' interaction, we show how families used touch to bring their interests and resources into dialogue with museum expectations and resources. Using a multimodal approach to analyze observational data, we generate a fine-grained account of differently configured family …
Methodological dialogues across multimodality and sensory ethnography: Digital Touch Communication
There is a significant gap between technological advancements of digital touch communication devices and social science methodologies for understanding digital touch communication. In response to that gap this article makes a case for bringing the communicational focus of multimodality into dialogue with the experiential focus of sensory ethnography to explore digital touch communication. To do this, we draw on debates within the literature, and …
The Handbook of Visual Analysis
Introduction Content Analysis of Visual Images - Philip Bell Approaches to Analysis in Visual Anthropology - Malcolm Collier Seeing beyond Belief - Martin Lister and Liz Wells Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analyzing the Visual Semiotics and Iconography - Theo van Leeuwen A Therapeutic Perspective - Gertraud Diem-Wille The Use of Drawings in Child Psychoanalysis and Social Science Visual Meaning - Carey Jewitt and Rumiko Oyama A Social Semiot…
Special Issue: Social media and the visual
Social media are a significant part of contemporary communication.It is estimated that, by the end of 2016, over 2 billion people worldwide will be using social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to communicate, interact, and undertake a range of formal and informal activities and practices (Mccarthy et al., 2014).It is therefore vital
Exploring methodological innovation in the social sciences: The body in digital environments and the arts
In this paper we examine methodological innovation in the social sciences through a focus on researching the body in digital environments. There are two strands to our argument as to why this is a useful site to explore methodological innovation in the social sciences. First, researching the body in digital environments places new methodological demands on social science. Second, as an area of interest at the intersection of the social sciences a…
Multimodality, "Reading", and "Writing" for the 21st Century
As words fly onto the computer screen, revolve, and dissolve, image, sound, and movement enter school classrooms in “new” and significant ways, ways that reconfigure the relationship of image and word. In this paper I discuss these “new” modal configurations and explore how they impact on students’ text production and reading in English schools. I look at the changing role of writing on screen, in particular how the visual character of writing an…
Methodological dialogues across multimodality and sensory ethnography: Digital Touch Communication
There is a significant gap between technological advancements of digital touch communication devices and social science methodologies for understanding digital touch communication. In response to that gap this article makes a case for bringing the communicational focus of multimodality into dialogue with the experiential focus of sensory ethnography to explore digital touch communication. To do this, we draw on debates within the literature, and …
The move from page to screen: The multimodal reshaping of school English
In the move from page to screen a range of representational modes (including image, movement, gesture, and voice) are available as meaning-making resources. This article focuses on the reshaping of the entity ‘character’ in the transformation of the novel Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck, 1937) to CD-ROM (1996). Through detailed analysis the article demonstrates that the shift from written page to multimodal screen entails a shift in the construction o…
Conceptualising and researching the body in digital contexts: Towards New Methodological Conversations Across the Arts and Social Sciences
The turn to the body in social sciences has intensified the gaze of qualitative research on bodily matters and embodied relations and made the body a significant object of reflection, bringing new focus on and debates around the direction of methodological advances. This article contributes to these debates in three ways: 1) we explore the potential synergies across the social sciences and arts to inform the conceptualization of the body in digit…
Images of Men: Male Sexuality in Sexual Health Leaflets and Posters for Young People
This article presents a social semiotic analysis of the social construction of male sexuality in the images of sexual health posters and leaflets for young people aged 13 to 19 years old. It explores how male sexuality is managed at a visual level in sexual health leaflets and posters, and examines the notions of masculinity, gender and sexuality which inform the imagery in them. The analysis of the main structures of the images in which meanings…
Sensoria: An exploratory interdisciplinary framework for researching multimodal & sensory experiences
This paper describes the development and salience of an original and innovative interdisciplinary approach, Sensoria, that combines methods and techniques from social science and performance to address the methodological challenges of researching sensory/multimodal experiences. It sets out the core components and methodological principles that underpin the approach and uses an illustrative example to show how it can facilitate research on hard to…
Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary
This article makes legible emergent social imaginaries of digital touch for remote communication in personal relationships, with attention to digital touch interfaces. It draws on data from rapid prototyping research workshops with apprentice professionals embedded within digital communication. Touch is discussed with respect to four analytical themes: materiality, body, emplacement and temporality. We illustrate how participants’ past and presen…
Future touch in industry: Exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of tactile (tele)robots
Family touch practices and learning experiences in the museum
This paper investigates how family museum visitors crafted learning through interaction with one another and the touch objects of an exhibition. Through a case study of seven families' interaction, we show how families used touch to bring their interests and resources into dialogue with museum expectations and resources. Using a multimodal approach to analyze observational data, we generate a fine-grained account of differently configured family …
The Meaning of Action in Learning and Teaching
Action is a highly theorised aspect of social life. Nonetheless, it remains a relatively neglected source of data within educational research. This article attempts to highlight the significance of the analysis of organised action within educational research. It describes and demonstrates an analytical approach to action applicable to the classroom developed from approaches to the analysis of bodily communication and action in drama education and…
A social semiotic analysis of male heterosexuality in sexual health resources: The case of images
This paper describes the application of the visual social semiotics schema developed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996) to sexual health leaflets and posters for young people (age 13 to 19 years) in order to explore how male heterosexuality is managed at a visual level. It illustrates the use of the method, and its advantages and drawbacks in comparison with other methods, and highlights the importance of visual representations as a source of sociol…
Classrooms and the Design of Pedagogic Discourse: A Multimodal Approach
This paper offers a social semiotic analysis of the school classroom, in this case the subject English classroom, as a material instantiation of pedagogic discourse. The classroom is looked at as a multimodal sign: the semiotic 'residue' or 'sediment' of discursive practices over time. In particular it discusses how visual displays and spatial design in the English classroom can be thought of as signs of school English. From this perspective a te…
Interactive skin through a social- sensory speculative lens
This paper uses a speculative lens to explore the social and sensory trajectories of Interactive Skin, a class of skin-worn epidermal devices that augment the human body in ways that are significant for affective techno-touch. The paper presents and discusses the use of a speculative narrative on Interactive Skin futures produced through an exploratory research-collaboration with a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lab, combining data from specula…
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during Covid-19: An analysis of UK newspapers
This article considers newspapers’ role in shaping the sociotechnical imaginaries of touch, and emerging technologies that digitally mediate touch. It examines the discourses of touch and personal relationships at a distance that circulated in major British broadsheet newspapers during the 2020 outbreak of coronavirus disease-19, alongside dominant narratives of touch and remote communication in the previous 5 years. In doing so, the article demo…
Making sense of digitally remediated touch in virtual reality experiences
Digitally-mediated parent–baby touch and the formation of subjectivities
This article examines how the use of emergent smart baby monitors re-mediates parent–baby touch, notions of connection, parental sensing and the interpretation of babies’ bodies, and contributes to the formation of subjectivities. Domestic baby monitors are a mid 20th-century phenomenon which normalizes parental anxieties. While baby monitoring is not new, the ‘next generation’ of wearable bio-sensing baby monitors offers a different relationship…
Screens and the social landscape
The screen may be understood as a designed interface (e.g. television set, computers, information signage) and has a central place in representation and communication of the social landscape, and in the cultural and technological imagination, as well as having economic significance in the digital era of the 21st century. Traditional notions and functions of the screen are continuously shifting – a shift made all the more dramatic by the developme…
Images of Men: Male Sexuality in Sexual Health Leaflets and Posters for Young People
This article presents a social semiotic analysis of the social construction of male sexuality in the images of sexual health posters and leaflets for young people aged 13 to 19 years old. It explores how male sexuality is managed at a visual level in sexual health leaflets and posters, and examines the notions of masculinity, gender and sexuality which inform the imagery in them. The analysis of the main structures of the images in which meanings…
A social semiotic analysis of male heterosexuality in sexual health resources: The case of images
This paper describes the application of the visual social semiotics schema developed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996) to sexual health leaflets and posters for young people (age 13 to 19 years) in order to explore how male heterosexuality is managed at a visual level. It illustrates the use of the method, and its advantages and drawbacks in comparison with other methods, and highlights the importance of visual representations as a source of sociol…
The Meaning of Action in Learning and Teaching
Action is a highly theorised aspect of social life. Nonetheless, it remains a relatively neglected source of data within educational research. This article attempts to highlight the significance of the analysis of organised action within educational research. It describes and demonstrates an analytical approach to action applicable to the classroom developed from approaches to the analysis of bodily communication and action in drama education and…
The move from page to screen: The multimodal reshaping of school English
In the move from page to screen a range of representational modes (including image, movement, gesture, and voice) are available as meaning-making resources. This article focuses on the reshaping of the entity ‘character’ in the transformation of the novel Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck, 1937) to CD-ROM (1996). Through detailed analysis the article demonstrates that the shift from written page to multimodal screen entails a shift in the construction o…
Visual Meaning: A Social Semiotic Approach
English in Urban Classrooms: A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning
English in Urban Classrooms is a ground-breaking text that spans a range of issues central to school English today. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other modes of representation and communication that are important in English teaching. This includes image, gesture, gaze, movement and spatial organisation. The team of experienced and expert authors collectively examine how English is shaped by poli…
The Handbook of Visual Analysis
Introduction Content Analysis of Visual Images - Philip Bell Approaches to Analysis in Visual Anthropology - Malcolm Collier Seeing beyond Belief - Martin Lister and Liz Wells Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analyzing the Visual Semiotics and Iconography - Theo van Leeuwen A Therapeutic Perspective - Gertraud Diem-Wille The Use of Drawings in Child Psychoanalysis and Social Science Visual Meaning - Carey Jewitt and Rumiko Oyama A Social Semiot…
Multimodality, "Reading", and "Writing" for the 21st Century
As words fly onto the computer screen, revolve, and dissolve, image, sound, and movement enter school classrooms in “new” and significant ways, ways that reconfigure the relationship of image and word. In this paper I discuss these “new” modal configurations and explore how they impact on students’ text production and reading in English schools. I look at the changing role of writing on screen, in particular how the visual character of writing an…
Classrooms and the Design of Pedagogic Discourse: A Multimodal Approach
This paper offers a social semiotic analysis of the school classroom, in this case the subject English classroom, as a material instantiation of pedagogic discourse. The classroom is looked at as a multimodal sign: the semiotic 'residue' or 'sediment' of discursive practices over time. In particular it discusses how visual displays and spatial design in the English classroom can be thought of as signs of school English. From this perspective a te…
K. O'Halloran: Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Systemic Functional Perspectives. Continuum, 2004.
As the title of this book promises, it offers an in-depth exploration of a variety of texts and discourses from a multimodal systemic functional perspective. Each chapter offers a grounded approach to a particular aspect of multimodal discourse analysis. The chapters socially situate the text(s) being discussed to make connections across the design (social organization) of a text, a culture's knowledge of itself and the world. The book focuses on…
Screens and the social landscape
The screen may be understood as a designed interface (e.g. television set, computers, information signage) and has a central place in representation and communication of the social landscape, and in the cultural and technological imagination, as well as having economic significance in the digital era of the 21st century. Traditional notions and functions of the screen are continuously shifting – a shift made all the more dramatic by the developme…
The Policy—Practice Nexus in English Classrooms in Delhi, Johannesburg, and London: Teachers and the Textual Cycle
This article makes a methodological contribution to investigating the policy—practice nexus in the English classroom. It looks beyond language to offer a multimodal case study analysis of English classrooms in three cities: Delhi, Johannesburg, and London. The article shows how policies mediated by the agencies of the state, the school, the English department, and individual teachers are inflected and refracted through the textual cycle to positi…
Multimodality and Literacy in School Classrooms
The characteristics of contemporary societies are increasingly theorized as global, fluid (Bauman, 1998), and networked (Castells, 2001). These conditions underpin the emerging knowledge economy as it is shaped by the societal and technological forces of late capitalism. These shifts and developments have significantly affected the commu nicational landscape of the 21st century. A key aspect of this is the reconfiguration of the representational …
Multimodal Teaching and Learning
Multimodal perspectives on teaching and learning build on the basic assumption that meanings are made (as well as distributed, interpreted, and remade) through many forms and resources of which language is but one—image, gesture, gaze, body posture, sound, writing, music, speech, and so on (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2001; Jewitt, 2009).
The Sage Handbook of Digital Technology Research
Introducing Multimodality
This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate. Readers will become familiar with the key concepts and methods in various domains while learning how to engage critically with the notion of multimodality. The book challenges widely held assumptions about language and presents the practical steps involved in setting up a multimodal study, includin…
Special Issue: Social media and the visual
Social media are a significant part of contemporary communication.It is estimated that, by the end of 2016, over 2 billion people worldwide will be using social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to communicate, interact, and undertake a range of formal and informal activities and practices (Mccarthy et al., 2014).It is therefore vital
Exploring methodological innovation in the social sciences: The body in digital environments and the arts
In this paper we examine methodological innovation in the social sciences through a focus on researching the body in digital environments. There are two strands to our argument as to why this is a useful site to explore methodological innovation in the social sciences. First, researching the body in digital environments places new methodological demands on social science. Second, as an area of interest at the intersection of the social sciences a…
Conceptualising and researching the body in digital contexts: Towards New Methodological Conversations Across the Arts and Social Sciences
The turn to the body in social sciences has intensified the gaze of qualitative research on bodily matters and embodied relations and made the body a significant object of reflection, bringing new focus on and debates around the direction of methodological advances. This article contributes to these debates in three ways: 1) we explore the potential synergies across the social sciences and arts to inform the conceptualization of the body in digit…
Tribute to Gunther Kress (1940–2019): Reflecting on visuals that shaped his work
Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary
This article makes legible emergent social imaginaries of digital touch for remote communication in personal relationships, with attention to digital touch interfaces. It draws on data from rapid prototyping research workshops with apprentice professionals embedded within digital communication. Touch is discussed with respect to four analytical themes: materiality, body, emplacement and temporality. We illustrate how participants’ past and presen…
Family touch practices and learning experiences in the museum
This paper investigates how family museum visitors crafted learning through interaction with one another and the touch objects of an exhibition. Through a case study of seven families' interaction, we show how families used touch to bring their interests and resources into dialogue with museum expectations and resources. Using a multimodal approach to analyze observational data, we generate a fine-grained account of differently configured family …
Methodological dialogues across multimodality and sensory ethnography: Digital Touch Communication
There is a significant gap between technological advancements of digital touch communication devices and social science methodologies for understanding digital touch communication. In response to that gap this article makes a case for bringing the communicational focus of multimodality into dialogue with the experiential focus of sensory ethnography to explore digital touch communication. To do this, we draw on debates within the literature, and …
Reflections on bodies in lockdown
Supporting Family Scaffolding and Collaboration Through Digital Interactive Tabletop Exhibits
This article presents a qualitative analysis of family interaction around digital interactive tabletop exhibits. Parents play a teaching role in museum visits, using strategies from encouragement, to giving directions about using exhibits, to offering explanations that connect an exhibit to children’s previous experiences. Touchscreens and touch tables offer different ways of engaging families in museums, raising questions around how these intera…
Psychology (30 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (15 works) · Art (12 works) · Human–computer interaction (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Multimodality (10 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (9 works)