Jesse Pirini

Victoria University of Wellington · School of Management

Science-based Open Innovation, Maori innovation, Vision mātauranga Overview For many years there have been questions as to the best way that research and science can contribute to New Zealand's prosperity. We know that our research and science is world-class, with praise for its high quality and quantity. But it is unclear how excellent research p...

In this article we introduce this special issue of Multimodal Communication. We briefly describe the founding of the Multimodal Research Centre and the journal Multimodal Communication before introducing each of the articles featured in this issue.

This manifesto stems from a transmedia initiative for collective research designed to shape-from the bottom-up-a socially responsive and responsible culture of inquiry, in observing, recording, sharing and reflecting on the changes to communication and interaction caused by the COVID-19 crisis and their enduring effects post-pandemic. The objective...

This manifesto stems from a transmedia initiative for collective research designed to shape-from the bottom-up-a socially responsive and responsible culture of inquiry, in observing, recording, sharing and reflecting on the changes to communication and interaction caused by the COVID-19 crisis and their enduring effects post-pandemic. The objective...

The past decade has seen a marked rise in research on entrepreneurial accelerators. Efforts to develop a conceptual definition of the accelerator initially lagged behind this surge, but have recently begun to emerge in published articles. We explore this conceptual evolution as a case study of how scholars respond to new entrepreneurial phenomena....

Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis was developed to study social interaction based upon the theoretical notion of mediated action. Building on this core concept, Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis includes several theoretical/methodological tools. These tools facilitate analysis which moves flexibly between micro-level moments of interaction and macr...

This chapter introduces the five most prominent approaches to multimodal data analysis: Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis, Mediated Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, and Multimodal Conversation Analysis. The chapter begins by discussing the origin of each approach, methods of data collection an...

This paper reports on analysis from a corpus of audio-video recorded interactions during a collaborative building task. The task generates distinct knowledge asymmetries which motivate interaction toward acquiring shared understandings. The analysis suggests that the convergence of the communicative modes of posture and gaze is crucial to producing...

Culture and society are produced through interactions between people, objects, and environments. Within these interactions it has become clear that the modes of spoken and written language are only some of a diverse range of modes involved in producing meaning and experience. As topics of study, the modes of spoken and written language have been jo...

This article takes a multimodal approach to examine how two young men communicate knowledge, shift attention, and negotiate a disagreement via videoconferencing technology. The data for the study comes from a larger ongoing project of participants engaging in various tasks together. Linking micro, intermediate and macro analyses through the various...

Building on multimodal (inter)action analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework, this article introduces and develops the theoretical/methodological tool called primary agency. Taking the mediated action as a unit of analysis, agency can be analysed as a feature of action. However, there is a lack of empirical approaches for the study o...

Differences in knowledge about events, states, situations and so forth are central to interaction (Kastberg, 2007; Schiffrin; 1986, Heritage, 2012). Social actors develop their understanding of what they expect others to know, how certain they are about knowledge, and how relevant particular information is in a given interaction. Markers of knowled...

Agency is often conceived as a struggle between social and institutional structures and the agency of the individual (Emirbayer and Mische, 1998). Theorists tackle the extent to which people have agency, or are constrained by the structures of society. Norris and Jones (2005) highlight the utility of a mediated approach to agency, focusing on the t...

Researchers seeking to analyse how intersubjectivity is established and maintained face significant challenges. The purpose of this article is to provide theoretical/methodological tools that begin to address these challenges. I develop these tools by applying several concepts from multimodal (inter)action analysis to an excerpt taken from the begi...

During the activities of everyday life social actors always produce multiple simultaneous higher level actions. These necessarily operate at different levels of attention and awareness. Norris (2004, 2011) introduces modal density as a tool for analysing the attention/awareness of social actors in relation to higher level actions they produce, posi...

In this chapter, we discuss three different projects and three different types of researcher roles when collecting video data. The chapter is a discussion of the roles that we have taken up in actual research projects. We describe some how-to notions from camera positioning to interacting with participants and some of the problems that we found

We live in a country, in which ethical review boards have stringent expectations of what they believe ethical research is. While we certainly have a critical stance towards review boards’ notions of ethics, as researchers, we are firmly grounded in research ethics. Applying for, and receiving, ethical approval for research projects can be a challen...

This chapter introduces the primary notions of multimodal (inter)action analysis (MIA) and demonstrates the approach with an example. MIA was developed by Norris (Norris 2004, 2011) as a way to help her understand identity production during research with participants in Germany. Since then MIA has been useful in studies that involve social action r...

In this article I present an analysis of three extracts from a business coaching session captured on video. In business coaching the coach aims to help the client generate solutions to their own issues, often by finding different perspectives. However, there has been a lack of empirical studies focusing on the coaching interaction. Here I set out f...