Whose Modes Matter? Creating Robust, Peer-Reviewed Publishing Pathways for Multimodal Scholars

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

The objective of this working group roundtable is to pursue an inquiry critical to multimodal scholarship: How do we preserve trustworthiness and credibility of our multimodal data collection, reduction, analysis, and transcription processes within print-based publishing constraints? Four individual presentations will be shared: overviewing landscapes of multimodal publication, maintaining editorship of a multimodal journal, exploring epistemological and methodological tensions of publishing multimodal research in print-centric journals, and detailing constraints of publishing visuals. We endeavor to construct a space where multimodal scholars can collectively develop a research agendas and support systems to sustain our research in institutionally-recognized ways, hopeful that we can both problematize landscape of multimodal publication and develop paths toward future collaboration and robust publication of multimodal research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meanings and Multimodality

Chair

• Katarina N. Silvestri, SUNY - College at Cortland

Papers

• Scoping Peer Reviewed Journals for Supporting Multimodal Publishing in Literacy and Language Education - Brett Stamm, University of Southern Mississippi; Qianqian Ma, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Katarina N. Silvestri, SUNY - College at Cortland; Aijuan Cun, University of New Mexico

• More Than Words: Publishing Multimodal Research in Multimodal Ways - Fei Victor Lim, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Nexus Analysis in a Cardigan: Softening Multimodal Edges for the Ivory Tower - Casey M. Pennington, SUNY Cortland; Amy Walker, Kent State University

• These Aren’t Just Decorative: Challenges of Publishing Visuals in Empirical Research - Julianna E. Lopez Kershen, University of Oklahoma; Kristy Brugar, University of Oklahoma

Session Organizer

• Katarina N. Silvestri, SUNY - College at Cortland