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​MEET TUOMO HIIPPALA
Tuomo Hiippala is Assistant Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities at the Department of Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland. His current interests include developing methods and resources for supporting empirical research on multimodality, and particularly the applications of artificial intelligence in multimodality research. His major publications include The Structure of Multimodal Documents (2015) and Multimodality: Foundations, Research and Analysis (2017), co-authored with John Bateman and Janina Wildfeuer.
​MEET CAREY JEWITT
Carey Jewitt is Professor of Learning and Technology at UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London. Her research interests include researching technology-mediated interaction, touch, the development of multimodal research theory and methods, and innovating research methods across the social sciences and arts. She currently leads IN-TOUCH a 5 year ERC Consolidator Award (in-touch-digital.com), and has directed a number of large ESRC research projects on methodological innovation, most recently MODE ‘Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data and Environments’ (MODE.ioe.ac.uk) and MIDAS ‘Methodological Innovation in Digital Arts and Social Sciences’ (MIDAS.ioe.ac.uk). She has published a number of books including Introducing Multimodality (2016) with Bezemer and O’Halloran, The Sage Handbook of Researching Digital Technologies (2014) with Price and Brown, and The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis (2014).
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MEET RICHARD MISEK
Richard Misek is a film-maker and Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Kent. His interests focus on montage and appropriation, cities and space, colour and light, and the interstices between film and digital media. He is the author of Chromatic Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and his articles have been published in journals including October, Screen, and the New Review of Film and Television. He is a regular video essayist and has been Primary Investigator on two Arts and Humanities Research council projects focusing on audiovisual film and media studies (2016-18). His essay film Rohmer in Paris (2013) has been exhibited in five continents and received widespread critical acclaim. He is currently producing a series of interactive video essays in collaboration with Melbourne-based VR studio Vrtov and the British Film Institute. He was the most cited video essayist in the Sight and Sound 2017 poll of best video essays.​
MEET JOHN MIERS
John Miers completed his PhD, Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives, at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in 2018, and began a postdoctoral residency at London College of Communication (UAL) the same year. He is a member of CoRH! (Comics Research Hub) at UAL. He is a lecturer in Illustration and Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston School of Art, and visiting lecturer at University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art.
​MEET SUMIN ZHAO
Sumin Zhao is a Lecturer in Discourse Analysis at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on digital literacies of young (multilingual) children and visual social media. Recent co-edited books include Critical multimodal studies of popular discourse (Routledge, 2016), Advancing critical and multimodal discourse studies (Routledge, 2017). Her monograph The Social Semiotics of Book Apps is forthcoming in 2020 (Bloomsbury). She edits book reviews for Discourse and Communication (Sage).