{"title":"Introducing ethnohistorical research to multimodal studies","authors":"L. O’Hagan","doi":"10.1177/26349795221132471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221132471","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reflects on the importance of archival research to the analysis of historical multimodal texts. Specifically, it put forwards a “multimodal ethnohistorical” approach, offering a guide to the key principles and resources that underpin the methodology and using examples from past research to demonstrate its effectiveness. The paper argues that multimodal ethnohistory can help address many of the criticisms around text-based multimodal analysis and its lack of attention to the broader social practices, processes and people involved in the production or reception of texts. The proposed methodology, thus, hopes to open up a debate about the need to gain a greater appreciation of the past to place contemporary multimodal texts within a broader trajectory of patterned practices and uses, thereby fostering a deeper awareness of how certain semiotic and compositional choices are rooted in earlier historical conventions of meaning-making but have evolved over time in response to technological change.","PeriodicalId":134431,"journal":{"name":"Multimodality & Society","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128637016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musical haptics for the listener: Reflections of a design practitioner","authors":"L. Turchet","doi":"10.1177/26349795221128020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221128020","url":null,"abstract":"This short essay focuses on the author’s reflections as a design practitioner in the emerging field of musical haptics. The reported perspectives relate to the fields of human-computer interaction and music composition and performance. Both ideas and concerns are presented, which are derived from the process of designing, implementing and evaluating hardware and software haptic devices to be used in musical settings with the aim of enriching the listeners’ experiences. Finally, some final thoughts and future interventions are proposed.","PeriodicalId":134431,"journal":{"name":"Multimodality & Society","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116681881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Touching our perceptions of food and drink: Impressions of a sensory scientist","authors":"Carol Raithatha","doi":"10.1177/26349795221115462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221115462","url":null,"abstract":"Topical are The and for touch, as some the challenges, are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":134431,"journal":{"name":"Multimodality & Society","volume":"157 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114107366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Jewitt, S. Price, Jürgen Steimle, Gijs Huisman, L. Golmohammadi, Narges Pourjafarian, W. Frier, Thomas Howard, S. Ipakchian Askari, Michela Ornati, S. Paneels, Judith Weda
{"title":"A provocative call to engage with social and sensory aspects of touch","authors":"C. Jewitt, S. Price, Jürgen Steimle, Gijs Huisman, L. Golmohammadi, Narges Pourjafarian, W. Frier, Thomas Howard, S. Ipakchian Askari, Michela Ornati, S. Paneels, Judith Weda","doi":"10.1177/26349795221115463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221115463","url":null,"abstract":"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 haptic designers, developers and researchers might rethink and reimagine the social and sensory aspects of touch, and foreground these more in design.","PeriodicalId":134431,"journal":{"name":"Multimodality & Society","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115309742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gut feelings and interoceptive touch","authors":"A. Lynch","doi":"10.1177/26349795221115392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221115392","url":null,"abstract":"My own intestinal and emotional sensitivity has led me to my ongoing research project Gut Feelings. I began by working with the symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts (SCOBY) of kombucha tea, the cellulose pellicle that grows on top fermenting it at home because the drink has helped to settle and regulate my digestion. I wonder, how does my consumption of the microorganisms within, the bacteria and yeasts, affect my consciousness and myself as a more-than-human assemblage? At the same time, I am drawn to the way the SCOBY looks, smells and feels. Within this research project I have been working with kombucha SCOBYs, intestines, and more recently, compost worms. These all share material, affective, and aesthetic qualities in ways that relate to touch: they are viscous (not quite liquid or solid), slimy and squishy. They also involve multi-species symbioses and are deeply entangled with the processes of fermentation and decomposition. Later in the project, contamination by mould and other microorganisms entered as an additional entity. In this essay, I approach my project Gut Feelings through ideas of interoceptive touch. Interoception is the sense of the internal state of the body. How can we experience touch within our bodies, and specifically within the gut?","PeriodicalId":134431,"journal":{"name":"Multimodality & Society","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129113358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing togetherness: Mediating digital social touch through footwear","authors":"Emilie B. Cohrt","doi":"10.1177/26349795221115381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221115381","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the significance of digital social touch in creating and maintaining our relationships to intimate others. It presents ‘Project Re:Connect’ – a speculative design project centred around mediating digital social touch through footwear. The primary objective of the project was to use diegetic props to instigate debate and deliberate decision making regarding the design futures of technologically mediated communication.","PeriodicalId":134431,"journal":{"name":"Multimodality & Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114816345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Out of Touch: How to Survive an Intimacy Famine","authors":"Georgia Perkins","doi":"10.1177/26349795221113046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221113046","url":null,"abstract":"Douglas Atkinson is a PhD candidate at UCL Knowledge Lab and Lecturer in Fashion Wearable Technologies at London College of Fashion: UAL. His research interests include touch perception of physical and digital artefacts, and the multi-modal and crossmodal sensory experience of making. His PhD research focuses on ethnographically documenting the forms of touch used to gain understandings and mediate the making process during the hands-on development of a garment. The research also introduces designers to touch-sensing textile materials in the context of their studio prototyping activities, to elicit discussions on their hopes, fears and proposed applications for digital touch technologies in garment design or manufacture. Douglas has previously been a Research Associate on the ‘Digital Sensoria: Design through Digital Perceptual Experience’ project (supported by the RCUK Digital Economy Programme) and Co-Investigator on ‘MIDAS: Methodological Innovation in Digital Arts and Social Sciences’ (ESRC funded). He lectures on fashion and digital technologies at a number of universities and has recently co-authored a report to Government as part of the Innovate UK ‘Made Smarter’ programme discussing support for re-shoring UK garment manufacturing using automation.","PeriodicalId":134431,"journal":{"name":"Multimodality & Society","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121786179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}