Workshop #3 podcast – Multimodal Appreciation

For our third and final workshop we invited a small group of editors, publishers, professors in degree-granting programs and members of academic societies – people who play gatekeeping roles – to try out evaluation practices that we had developed on selected multimodal works: a game, a book+audio/visual material + website, a graphic ethnography, a film.

We then asked them to reflect on how effective these practices were at helping them to identify and articulate the value(s) of multimodal works or how we might use these or other practices to institutionalise multimodal forms and formats in future gatekeeping encounters.

Towards the end of the two-day workshop, we asked the participants what they took home from the workshop and, in particular, what in their position might be needed for multimodality to be properly evaluated in different contexts.

Listen to their answers in the following mini podcast series:

1. Dimitra Kofti

Co-Editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

2. Vivian Berghahn

Managing director of Berghahn Books, Berghahn Journals Director, and promoter of the Berghahn Open Anthro initiative

3. Ana Ivasiuc

President of the EASA executive

4. Gabriele Alex

Co-editor of Zeitschrift für Ethnologie / Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology

5. Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Incoming editor of JRAI

6. Alexa Färber

Professor for European Ethnology, Universität Wien, editor of Journal for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology of DGEKW, and co-convenor of the EASA network of Multimodal Anthropology

7. Simone Pfeifer

Co-convener of the Working Group “Media Anthropology” (AG Medien) of the DGSKA – German Anthropological Association, where she also acts elected press officer and part of the advisory board.