Finishing things in 2025: This big, big project is now out!

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...

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!

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.

#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!

❗ 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...

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...

Und nun die dritte Keynote von Professorin Janina Wildfeuer! #GAL2025

Ich durfte gestern auf der #GAL2025 sprechen - was für eine Ehre!

Preparations are in full swing and we look forward to welcoming everyone in Groningen soon for #12ICOM: 12th International Conference on Multimodality 29-31 October 2025, House of Connections, Groningen bit.ly/12ICOM Watch our website for the full program to be online soon!

VisCom‘s 2025 special issue papers are out! A brilliant issue on multimodal reception studies - many of them with open access! @viscomjournal.bsky.social

My inbox zero lasted for exactly 10 minutes today - and I’ve got proof! Not to bad for the last day before the summer break and good reason to ignore any incoming messages for a while. #outofoffice

mmmconflab.ewi.tudelft.nl Check out this workshop coming up 17th of July in Rotterdam, still looking for participants!

Our #TikTok paper is finally out! This is @macgrzen.bsky.social‘s first PhD paper, congratulations! 🎉 Open access and ready for you to be tested with your TikTok dataset! doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

Join us via Zoom or at RCB 7402 on Thurs July 3rd, 12:30pm. More info: www.sfu.ca/linguistics/... @sfufass.bsky.social @sfucmns.bsky.social @mtaboada.bsky.social @mglinguist.bsky.social

🥹 We just ended the very last #BreGroMM session for this year and probably for a very long time. Wow! Saying goodbye with a sad eye, also looking forward to #12ICOM in October - with hope for inspiration for something new in 2026! If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please share! 👋

We are looking forward to our next EnvisionBox summerschool next week at the University of Amsterdam. We are also very pleased with the poster (with new logo for envisionbox)! @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @skadava.bsky.social

📢 @jamestrujillo.bsky.social (Assistant Professor @illc-uva.bsky.social, Visiting Prof #Universitéd'Orléans) will give a talk on Multimodal Dynamics of Conversational Turn-Taking on 19 June at 2pm as part of the #LLL Annual Conferences 🗣️📊 #Multimodality #VideoData #Linguistics #EnvisionBOX @cnrs.fr

🚨 Call for Papers: Tracing patterns across modalities – similarities and differences in speaking, writing and signing 24-27 Feb 2026 @ Uni of Trier, Germany We're looking forward to your submissions! Find more info at tracingpatterns.phil.hhu.de #linguistics #CfP #linguistik #sprachwissenschaft

Our next #multimodality online talk (27 June, 12:00-13.30 London time) will have Dr Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social on "Investigating ideology, manipulation and text interpretation in documentary films". Find more information and register via the link⬇️

Looking forward to discussing my recent monograph (and some extras!) in this talk. Hope to see you there! Thanks again to @sophiadiamantop.bsky.social for the invitation!

Introducing "Grounding the Development of an Ontology for Narrative and Fiction" by Luca Scotti et al. 🧵1/ Formal ontologies can enrich how we model narratives. Before developing a model that can be applied in research, a solid conceptual foundation is needed. #DigitalHumanities #SemanticWeb

I'm part of roundtable "𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬/𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜" on 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟳, 𝟵:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟭:𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝐦 (𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞) – with Miriyam Aouragh, Roger Canals, Donatella Della Ratta, and Yoav Galai – hope to see you there! digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/visual...

The program and (free) registration for online 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 "𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 / 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜", 𝟮𝟰-𝟮𝟳 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, are available! digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/visual-ai-po...

On my way to #ADDA5 starting later today in Tilburg. Our panel on style in and of AI-generated images, organised by @nataliialaba.com, @tjthomson.bsky.social and me starts right after the keynote. Exciting! My own talk will be about --sref style codes on Midjourney.

Herzliche Einladung mit uns gern auch fächerübergreifend über Faktualität und Fiktionalität zu diskutieren. #BLinguistik

"You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire." - D. Graham Burnett www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very happy to have this workshop today with lovely people and great expertise coming together.

Don't miss the #Multimodality Talk this Friday 9 May online at noon London time (or 1 pm CET): Organisational Semiotics in Visual Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health with prof Theo van Leeuwen. There is still space to sign up. Registration via link, below. #AcademicSky #MultimodalSky

📣New book chapter w/ @neous.bsky.social on #hatespeech #multimodality #argumentation check it out 👉Imagery of Hate Online www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

CfP Digital Politics Summer School at Manchester Metropolitan University, 23-27 June (online). This year, the school is focusing on visual generative AI, and invites applications for participation in a networking and co-production session. More info: digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/visual-ai-po...

Exciting news! Prof Theo van Leeuwen's #Multimodality Talk on "Sexual and reproductive health promotion – an organizational semiotic approach". 9 May, 12-1.30 London time. It's online, free and all interested are welcome. #AcademicSky #ResearchSky Register at: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Leider kommt das Leben dazwischen: Ich muss den Vortrag leider absagen, weil ich mich an diesem Tag von meinem am Wochenende verstorbenen Opa verabschieden muss 🖤 Er würde das nicht wollen, aber ich möchte ihn auf seinem letzten Weg begleiten. Vielen Dank für das Verständnis.

Join us for a week of *Unboxing Multimodality* in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Among others, David Pagnon will introduce #pose2sim pipeline and cover topics like building low-cost 3D motion capture setup 📽️ and motion tracking processing 👐🏻 Application is open until 4th of May! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Applications open! forms.gle/LnNSEyivsADr...

Join us online for a guest lecture by Crispin Thurlow on 📖 "The Pragmatic of Privilege: Performing Luxury Labour in Super-Elite Hotels" 📅 30 April 2025 🕤 09:30 - 10:30 🚩 online & Unipark Nonntal | E.003 (HS G. Eisler) Join online --> DM me to receive the link. #discourseanalysis #multimodality

Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Thanks to @nataliialaba.com, our journal is now on BlueSky! 🥳 Please follow and stay informed about visual communication scholarship!

UHD bloemen.

#12ICOM Update 🔴 You can now register for the conference and save your spot for the conference dinner. 🔴 A preliminary schedule is also available to plan your travel to and stay in Groningen: bit.ly/12ICOM 💥 I am so looking forward to this conference and everyone coming to Groningen! 💥

📣Come and work with us @unigroningen.bsky.social New PhD position/project: "Tik-Tok Wars: Analyzing the Mobilization of Conflict Narratives on Social Media" more info 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #CDS #socialmedia #conflict #war

Busy week: Today, Menghan Deng and I presented our setup for a special issue contribution on food packaging. We are currently working on a multimodal corpus and critical discourse analysis of packages for breast milk substitutes in China and NL.

Freue mich, in diesem Buch auch dabei sein zu dürfen (obwohl ich an der Tagung selbst gar nicht teilgenommen habe). Das Schreiben dieses Beitrags hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht und ich freue mich auf die Lektüre der anderen Kapitel!

Before doing all things TikTok, I will also present our brand new Master program 'Communication Studies' @unigroningen.bsky.social. It's the Master Open Online Week! Find more details at bit.ly/m/RUG-MA-CIS - and share this with your students!