AUT - Multimodal Research Centre - Research Areas
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Multimodal Research Centre - Research Areas
This page offers information about Multimodal Research Centre's research areas and interests.
Multimodal Discourse Analysis
This research node brings together concerns from diverse areas of study such as Mediated Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Visual Communication, Sound Studies and many others that inform Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Research in this area is interested in moving the broad field of Multimodal Discourse Analysis forward. A focus on methodological concerns is expected.Current Projects: Attention in the Age of Information Overload, Horseback Riding Lessons
Multimodal InterAction Analysis
This node of research focuses on interests in Multimodal InterAction. Research projects in this area are practice-based with a focus on theoretical and methodological concerns.Current Projects: Interactive Gaming, Young Malaysian Gamers, Touch Screen Devices and Children, Flip, Workplace Practice
Multimodal Identity Construction
The shared focus in this research node revolves around questions of identity construction. Research projects in this area span from national and personal identity construction in the media to national, ethnicity, and personal identity construction in societies, organizations and families.Current Projects: Reincarnating Heroes, Identity in Everyday Life
Multimodal Media
This research area looks at diverse communication media - from print to news to film to online media - as multimodal constructs. Research projects may follow various communicative objectives yet share a multimodal perspective on communication and mediated interaction.Current Projects: PR-isation, Construction of Humour
Geosemiotics
This research area focuses on the investigation of signs in place.Current Projects: Global Geosemiotics: A world-wide data base of signs
Last updated: 16 Feb 2012 4:30pm