Byrne, Fiona;
(2024)
A diffractive approach to multimodal transcription: materialising entanglements between humans and non-humans.
Multimodality and Society
10.1177/26349795241291369.
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Abstract
Posthumanism is a transdisciplinary paradigm which challenges our anthropocentric gaze when carrying out research. In this article, I argue that multimodality aligns with the posthuman paradigm, and that multimodal analysis can be a useful tool when completing empirical posthuman research. I present empirical data from a study on pre-schoolers’ creativity with tablet computers which combined multimodal methods and a posthuman theoretical lens. Data were analysed using multimodal (intra) action analysis. Multimodal (inter) action analysis focuses on social action and interaction between humans, whereas multimodal (intra) action analysis focuses on the entanglement between human and non-human. Drawing upon Haraway and Barad’s “diffraction”, a methodological alternative to reflexivity, multiple different multimodal transcripts of the same audio-visual data were created and then read through one another to see what “differences made a difference”. Repeatedly engaging with the data in different formats allowed me to slow down and pay attention to (intra) activity between humans and non-humans. The unique contribution of this paper is in my transfer of methods and concepts between multimodality and posthumanism, particularly the use of a diffractive approach to reading multimodal transcripts.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A diffractive approach to multimodal transcription: materialising entanglements between humans and non-humans |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/26349795241291369 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795241291369 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Multimodality, Transcription, Diffraction, Posthumanism, Methodology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198421 |
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