Multimodality and Academic Publishing
Presented by DFI’s Multimodal Scholarship Series
In collaboration with Teachers College Record
February 22, 2024
Academic publishing is undergoing an evolution as more scholars embrace multimodal forms of knowledge production and dissemination. This panel brings together key voices to discuss the changes and challenges around publishing multimodal scholarship.
This timely discussion explores how academic publishing can evolve to fully embrace diverse multimodal scholarship. The panelists represent leading journals, scholars, and organizations at the forefront of these changes. The panel is of interest to editors, reviewers, authors, publishers, and anyone interested in the future of academic knowledge production and publication.
Panelists:
Lesley Bartlett, former Editor, Anthropology and Education Quarterly; Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Esther Jackson, Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian, Columbia University
Nick Sousanis, Author of Unflattening (Harvard University Press); Associate Professor, San Francisco State University
Moderators:
Nancy Lesko, Executive Editor, Teachers College Record Maxine Greene Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Lalitha Vasudevan, Vice Dean for Digital Innovation, Teachers College, Columbia University
Is there a format that would be a bridge too far for you to consider as scholarship?
Full Event
Video Highlights
- 00:00 - Introductions
- 24:51 - Inherent tensions between what is possible and what we ought to be doing (or appropriate)
- 34:26 - The automatic disciplinarity and affect of multimodal work
- 40:58 - The relationship between the creator of multimodal scholarship and the outputs for publication
- 51:14 - The democratizing potential of multimodal scholarship
- 54:51 - What multimodal forms can be considered scholarship?
- 01:04:34 - The impediments and levers of hope in academic publishing
- 01:12:33 - The currency of multimodal scholarship in academic life
- 01:18:41 - Audience questions
I was thinking about how too often, and particularly with print-based stuff, we think about knowledge as product, like finished. And I would really love to see us move toward something that's more interactive, something that can be engaged, something that can be updated, but also where people can comment and engage and modify. So I would love for us to think about it knowledge more as process and have outcomes or artifacts that could lend themselves toward that.