Toward Multimodal Inquiry: Reorienting the Way We Work/Think/Play in Research and Scholarship

• In Event: 44.085 - Poster Session 9
  In Poster Session: 44.085-4 - Biographical and Documentary Research SIG Poster Session

Abstract

In this paper, we suggest that we are witnessing a challenge to the hegemony of text-based knowledge, brought about by newly available modes of expression, and a cultural shift in our notions of reading and writing, authorship, and knowledge production. The central question we address here concerns the implications of widening (or not) our ideas of acceptable forms of inquiry, analysis and representation in research and scholarship. Based on our research as a collective of scholar-practitioners working both within and outside the formal structures of academia, we analyze the key opportunities facilitated by multimodal inquiry, as well as the obstacles (cultural, institutional and otherwise) that stand in the way of a wider adoption of this type of research.

Authors

• Ioana Literat, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Anna C Conover, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Elizabeth Herbert-Wasson, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Karen Kirsch Page, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Joseph Riina-Ferrie, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Rachael Stephens

• Sawaros Thanapornsangsuth, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Lalitha M. Vasudevan, Teachers College, Columbia University