Multimodal methods for researching digital data and environments

Many digital texts and environments employ a range of linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and haptic (tactile) modes of representation and communication. Increasingly, in order to understand how people communicate and interact in digital environments researchers need to look beyond language, and towards the idea of communication as multimodal. Multimodal research builds on concepts from Social Semiotics, Linguistics more generally, Art History, and Sociology to analyse how people make meaning.