Multimodality. A Hands-On Guide is now available! Time to make some space next to the blue book - for many great use case and corpus chapters in pink! www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...
Janina Wildfeuer
@neous.bsky.social
@neous since 2003. #Multimodality researcher at Uni Groningen. Chief Editor of Visual Communication. Mum of three.
Oh, so exciting! Both books are off to the printer: Multimodality. A Hands-On Guide, together with John Bateman and @thiip.bsky.social. Arguing with Multiple Semiotic Modes, together with Hartmut Stöckl and Assimakis Tseronis. To be published in June!
Im Oktober darf ich in Greifswald einen Workshop für die #ResearchSchool geben ⤵️. Darauf freue ich mich sehr!
Dank der Förderung durch die @gal-ev.bsky.social können wir im Oktober eine #ResearchSchool zum Thema #Social #Pragmatics durchführen. Es soll vor allem um Methoden und konkrete Datendiskussionen gehen. Mit dabei: @neous.bsky.social @danielpfurtscheller.at Florence Oloff und Philipp Dreesen #Call
Our MM&AI Research Day is only a month away - and we are proud of having both Theo van Leeuwen and John Bateman with us for an exciting morning in Groningen! If you are around, please join us on 7 May for their talks, an interactive discussion and a book launch! www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm...
Multimodality & AI Research Day
Join us for the Multimodality (and AI) Research Day on May 7 between 10:00-13:00 (organized by the Multimodality and AI research group and the Jantina...
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#DigitalPalates is waiting for @diemerstefan.bsky.social‘s keynote The evolution of (online) taste: a gustatory journey with chocolate offered for during the keynote! But don’t eat it yet!
Ready, too! Very excited about the many different perspectives on food that we are about to meet.
Ready for the Digital P(a)lates pre-conference workshop day to start - nice 70s vibe in the conference center at FU Berlin 🍽️📱 #DigitalPalates
Our co-edited open access book with @catherinebouko.bsky.social, Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images, now has a cover and critics’ reviews 📘 ✨ www.routledge.com/Six-Critical...
Delighted that our article analysing the forms and functions of Trump’s shrug gestures has been nominated for the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division’s “Outstanding Journal Article of the Year” award. The article is published in Visual Communication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Digital Food Discourses in Berlin in March! 🥳
5 more weeks to go to... - 2 workshops (👋 @neous.bsky.social) - 4 keynotes (👋 @diemerstefan.bsky.social) - 1 practitioner talk - 14 full talks (👋 @fabiociambella.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @annaborghi.bsky.social, @lulind.bsky.social) - 21 lightning talks #DigitalPalates
All set for our two-day collab between @rug.nl and Uni Hamburg on multimodal hate. Thanks to both universities for the seed money and for everyone joining!
Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
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Hate comes in many forms and especially the role that (audio)visuals play in our social media communication has not been addressed systematically. This is what we will do in a new collab between NL & D. First impressions: 12 February 2026 11.00-15.30, including lunch! Norman Building
Nicht vergessen: Heute ist wieder #ArtificialFriday! 🗓️ 🎓 Online-Kolloquium | Teilnahme kostenfrei ⏰ 14 Uhr Mit 🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) zu metaphorischen Konzeptualisierungen von KI 🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI ➡️ Jetzt noch anmelden: artificial-friday.de
Artificial Friday – Linguistischen Perspektiven auf Künstliche Intelligenz
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Am Freitag darf ich beim Artificial Friday vortragen - ich freu mich sehr darauf!
Dieser Freitag, 16.01. ist kein normaler Freitag – es ist wieder #ArtificialFriday! Diesmal mit: 🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) über Metaphorische Konzeptualisierungen von KI und 🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI ➡️ Infos & Anmeldung: artificial-friday.de
Finishing things in 2025: This big, big project is now out!
📣 Proud to present the first ever major reference work on comics studies in German! #comic #comicsforschung @stephanpackard.bsky.social @julianeblank.bsky.social @neous.bsky.social Find it here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Almost feels like a big family gathering: MARGE #3: Multimodal Argumentation in Everyday Conversation & the Media: Putting Methods to the Test Today and tomorrow in Salzburg, organized by Hartmut Stöckl.
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our final talk for 2025 is on 10th December and is by Dr Yu Zhu from Qilu Normal University (see abstract below).
#CfP! Special Visual Essays Issue on More-than-Human Perspectives in Visual Communication, guest edited by Juhri Salamet. Extended abstracts due 20 January 2026. More information: www.designresearchsociety.org/events/cfp-s...
CfP: Special Visual Essays Issue on More-than-Human Perspectives in Visual Communication
Extended abstracts due 20 January 2026.
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Helsinki it is! Thank you for joining us in Groningen and see you there! #12ICOM #13ICOM
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027! Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi! Look out for a call for papers next summer!
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027! Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi! Look out for a call for papers next summer!
What a vibe! #12ICOM in Groningen is multimodalicious Thanks to @thiip.bsky.social, Louise Ravelli, Bart Verheij and @asliozyurek.bsky.social for their brilliant keynotes!
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group, co-organised by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. We start on 22nd October with Dan Thorpe from CCCU (see abstract contact details to join below)
🔗 The open-access study can be read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🙏 Thanks to @nataliialaba.com for inspiring this study and to she and @neous.bsky.social for organising a panel on visual style that we presented at #ADDA5 and that helped sharpen my arguments in this paper.
Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style - TJ Thomson, 2025
To the general public, text-to-image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, seem to work through magic and, indeed, their inner workings are often frustrati...
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#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream! We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home: bit.ly/12ICOMLive Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!
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12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
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❗ The full #12ICOM conference program is now available online! Registration is still open until 15 October - or until all places are filled. sites.google.com/rug.nl/12ico...
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Conference SCHEDULE | 12icom 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
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Since this year, I am a scholar of the Jantina Tammes School @rug.nl - and here is a post on my work for/with the school and our multimodality group! What an honor to be so prominently featured! 🥰 www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm...
Hoe AI betekenis geeft: ‘We weten niet precies hoe de interpretatie tot stand komt’
Digitale communicatie draait niet alleen om tekst. Ook niet-verbale expressies spelen een grote rol. Janina Wildfeuer, universitair hoofddocent aan de...
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Und nun die dritte Keynote von Professorin Janina Wildfeuer! #GAL2025
Die dritte Keynote der GAL-Jahrestagung: Prof. Dr. Janina Wildfeuer (Universität Groningen) „Und wo bleibt die Sprache…? Neue Perspektiven für eine multimodale Linguistik digitaler Kurzformate“ gal2025.de/keynote/ Anmeldung zur Tagung unter gal2025.de/anmeldung/ #GAL2025 #AngewandteLinguistik