How can scholarship be articulated through dance or a musical album? Under the colorful lights of the DFI Gallery, members of the TC community explored five unconventional dissertations last spring as part of “MODES,” the immersive exhibit of multimodal scholarship presented by the Digital Futures Institute.
“There's a tendency to think multimodal equals digital or multimodal equals media — electronic or digital media. And all of these dissertations attended to multimodal as so much more: multifaceted, multi-material, multimedia,” explained Lalitha Vasudevan, Professor of Technology and Education, and the College’s Vice Dean for Digital Innovation. Vasudevan, also the Managing Director at the College’s Digital Futures Institute, hosted a panel discussion about the exhibit, now available to watch below.
“[The scholars] were pointing to and harnessing the affordances or the capacities of different tools, different spaces, different platforms, as you'll see, in trying to investigate really broad, but also substantive questions about various social phenomena.”