Visual Methods and Meanings: Collaborative Analyses of Children’s Multimodal Texts

Session Submission Type: Alternative Format Session

Abstract

As students increasingly utilize the visual nature of contemporary society for learning and understanding, it is important for research to respond with methods for interpreting multimodal texts. This alternative format session will engage participants in reading multimodal images by collaboratively analyzing research using a theoretical framework that builds upon social semiotics and visual analysis. By making our analytic processes visible, we hope to offer new lenses for framing and analyzing multimodal research with diverse youth.

Content Area

• Area 11: Research Theory, Methods, and Practices

Discussant

• Frank Serafini, Arizona State University

Individual Presentations

• Visual Methods and Meanings: Collaborative Analyses of Children’s Multimodal Texts - Angela M Wiseman, North Carolina State University; Jennifer T Turner, University of Maryland; Marva Cappello, San Diego State University