#BreGroMM is back and the full program is available now!
We will start with a session on
Multimodality & Experimental Research
on 16 October, 1.00pm (CEST)
via Zoom
If you are not yet on the mailing list, you can register via our website: bit.ly/BreGroMM
„Multimodality: A Hands-On Guide“ von John A. Bateman, Janina Wildfeuer (@neous.bsky.social) und Tuomo Hiippala (@thiip.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1515/9783...
#BreGroMM is back and the full program is available now!
We will start with a session on
Multimodality & Experimental Research
on 16 October, 1.00pm (CEST)
via Zoom
If you are not yet on the mailing list, you can register via our website: bit.ly/BreGroMM
Multimodality. A Hands-On Guide is now available!
Time to make some space next to the blue book - for many great use case and corpus chapters in pink!
www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...
And continuing with Theo van Leeuwen, Sydney and Odense, on the semiotics of walking: moving the hips, knees, feet like John Travolta, John Wayne or famous YouTube influencers nowadays.
Oh, so exciting!
Both books are off to the printer:
Multimodality. A Hands-On Guide, together with John Bateman and @thiip.bsky.social.
Arguing with Multiple Semiotic Modes, together with Hartmut Stöckl and Assimakis Tseronis.
To be published in June!
Dank der Förderung durch die @gal-ev.bsky.social können wir im Oktober eine #ResearchSchool zum Thema #Social#Pragmatics durchführen. Es soll vor allem um Methoden und konkrete Datendiskussionen gehen. Mit dabei: @neous.bsky.social@danielpfurtscheller.at Florence Oloff und Philipp Dreesen #Call
Our MM&AI Research Day is only a month away - and we are proud of having both Theo van Leeuwen and John Bateman with us for an exciting morning in Groningen!
If you are around, please join us on 7 May for their talks, an interactive discussion and a book launch!
www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm...
#DigitalPalates is waiting for @diemerstefan.bsky.social‘s keynote
The evolution of (online) taste: a gustatory journey
with chocolate offered for during the keynote! But don’t eat it yet!
We're now starting the afternoon workshop with @neous.bsky.social (University of Groningen) on multimodal analysis of online food discourses #DigitalBite#DigitalPalates
Delighted that our article analysing the forms and functions of Trump’s shrug gestures has been nominated for the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division’s “Outstanding Journal Article of the Year” award. The article is published in Visual Communication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
All set for our two-day collab between @rug.nl and Uni Hamburg on multimodal hate.
Thanks to both universities for the seed money and for everyone joining!
Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...#multimodality#digitalhumanities
Hate comes in many forms and especially the role that (audio)visuals play in our social media communication has not been addressed systematically.
This is what we will do in a new collab between NL & D. First impressions:
12 February 2026
11.00-15.30, including lunch!
Norman Building
Nicht vergessen: Heute ist wieder #ArtificialFriday! 🗓️
🎓 Online-Kolloquium | Teilnahme kostenfrei
⏰ 14 Uhr
Mit
🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) zu metaphorischen Konzeptualisierungen von KI
🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI
➡️ Jetzt noch anmelden: artificial-friday.de
Dieser Freitag, 16.01. ist kein normaler Freitag – es ist wieder #ArtificialFriday!
Diesmal mit:
🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) über Metaphorische Konzeptualisierungen von KI und
🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI
➡️ Infos & Anmeldung: artificial-friday.de
📣 Proud to present the first ever major reference work on comics studies in German! #comic#comicsforschung@stephanpackard.bsky.social@julianeblank.bsky.social@neous.bsky.social
Find it here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Almost feels like a big family gathering:
MARGE #3: Multimodal Argumentation in Everyday Conversation & the Media: Putting Methods to the Test
Today and tomorrow in Salzburg, organized by Hartmut Stöckl.
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our final talk for 2025 is on 10th December and is by Dr Yu Zhu from Qilu Normal University (see abstract below).
#CfP! Special Visual Essays Issue on More-than-Human Perspectives in Visual Communication, guest edited by Juhri Salamet. Extended abstracts due 20 January 2026. More information: www.designresearchsociety.org/events/cfp-s...
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!
Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!
Look out for a call for papers next summer!
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!
Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!
Look out for a call for papers next summer!
What a vibe!
#12ICOM in Groningen is multimodalicious
Thanks to @thiip.bsky.social, Louise Ravelli, Bart Verheij and @asliozyurek.bsky.social for their brilliant keynotes!
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group, co-organised by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. We start on 22nd October with Dan Thorpe from CCCU (see abstract contact details to join below)
🔗 The open-access study can be read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🙏 Thanks to @nataliialaba.com for inspiring this study and to she and @neous.bsky.social for organising a panel on visual style that we presented at #ADDA5 and that helped sharpen my arguments in this paper.
#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!
We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home:
bit.ly/12ICOMLive
Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!
❗ The full #12ICOM conference program is now available online!
Registration is still open until 15 October - or until all places are filled.
sites.google.com/rug.nl/12ico...
Since this year, I am a scholar of the Jantina Tammes School @rug.nl - and here is a post on my work for/with the school and our multimodality group!
What an honor to be so prominently featured! 🥰
www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm...
Die dritte Keynote der GAL-Jahrestagung: Prof. Dr. Janina Wildfeuer (Universität Groningen) „Und wo bleibt die Sprache…?
Neue Perspektiven für eine multimodale Linguistik digitaler Kurzformate“
gal2025.de/keynote/
Anmeldung zur Tagung unter gal2025.de/anmeldung/#GAL2025#AngewandteLinguistik
Wo bleibt die Sprache (in der Multimodalitätsforschung) fragte gestern @neous.bsky.social in ihrer tollen Keynote auf der #GAL2025
Die Sprache bleibt, wenn…
👇
Preparations are in full swing and we look forward to welcoming everyone in Groningen soon for #12ICOM:
12th International Conference on Multimodality
29-31 October 2025, House of Connections, Groningen
bit.ly/12ICOM
Watch our website for the full program to be online soon!
VisCom‘s 2025 special issue papers are out!
A brilliant issue on multimodal reception studies - many of them with open access!
@viscomjournal.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to announce that the Special Issue on ‘Multimodality and Reception Studies’ I guest-edited for the @viscomjournal.bsky.social is now out (and most of the papers are open access)!
journals.sagepub.com/toc/VCJ/0/0?...
My inbox zero lasted for exactly 10 minutes today - and I’ve got proof!
Not to bad for the last day before the summer break and good reason to ignore any incoming messages for a while. #outofoffice
Our #TikTok paper is finally out!
This is @macgrzen.bsky.social‘s first PhD paper, congratulations! 🎉
Open access and ready for you to be tested with your TikTok dataset!
doi.org/10.1093/llc/...
🥹 We just ended the very last #BreGroMM session for this year and probably for a very long time. Wow!
Saying goodbye with a sad eye, also looking forward to #12ICOM in October - with hope for inspiration for something new in 2026!
If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please share! 👋
Very excited to be bringing the EnvisionBox summer school to Amsterdam! Now that we've got the dates lined out, we're working on finalizing a very exciting week of social signal processing sessions, both from the EnvisionBox team, as well as some exciting guest experts!
📢 @jamestrujillo.bsky.social (Assistant Professor @illc-uva.bsky.social, Visiting Prof #Universitéd'Orléans) will give a talk on Multimodal Dynamics of Conversational Turn-Taking on 19 June at 2pm as part of the #LLL Annual Conferences 🗣️📊
#Multimodality#VideoData#Linguistics#EnvisionBOX@cnrs.fr
🚨 Call for Papers: Tracing patterns across modalities – similarities and differences in speaking, writing and signing
24-27 Feb 2026 @ Uni of Trier, Germany
We're looking forward to your submissions! Find more info at tracingpatterns.phil.hhu.de#linguistics#CfP#linguistik#sprachwissenschaft
Our next #multimodality online talk (27 June, 12:00-13.30 London time) will have Dr Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social on "Investigating ideology, manipulation and text interpretation in documentary films". Find more information and register via the link⬇️
Looking forward to discussing my recent monograph (and some extras!) in this talk. Hope to see you there! Thanks again to @sophiadiamantop.bsky.social for the invitation!
Our next #multimodality online talk (27 June, 12:00-13.30 London time) will have Dr Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social on "Investigating ideology, manipulation and text interpretation in documentary films". Find more information and register via the link⬇️
Introducing "Grounding the Development of an Ontology for Narrative and Fiction" by Luca Scotti et al.
🧵1/ Formal ontologies can enrich how we model narratives. Before developing a model that can be applied in research, a solid conceptual foundation is needed. #DigitalHumanities#SemanticWeb