MODE is a node of the National Centre for Research Methods and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Based at the Institute of Education, University of London, we deliver an innovative programme of research and training on multimodality and digital data and environments.
We have created the first draft of the programme for the 6th International Conference on Multimodality – go to the 6ICOM page to download it now.
The follow-up day will consist of three data workshops in which we aim to work through participants’ own video data using the analytical tools previously introduced at MODE events The workshops will be facilitated by Jeff Bezemer, Carey Jewitt, Sara Price and Gunther Kress in collaboration with the participants whose data we’re working with Programme: … Continue reading
The case of Children’s Playground games This seminar will draw on a series of large datasets generated by the recent AHRC-funded project Children’s Playground Games and Songs in the age of New Media (www.beyondtext.ac.uk). The project studied playground games in two primary school playgrounds (in London and Sheffield), using forms of visual ethnography involving digital … Continue reading
Aim and focus This seminar focuses on transcription with the aim of investigating how different modes of (digitally recorded) social interaction can be remade on the page-like screen, it will explore what is sustained, gained and lost in transcribing embodied communication. Examination of a selection of published transcripts will include those that consist of: – … Continue reading
Aim and focus The training day is designed for postgraduate research students and established researchers who are working with video data and will provide: An overview of data collection methods and key issues for video based research An introduction to a range of approaches to the use of video data Exploratory case studies showing different … Continue reading