Book Review: Multimodality Studies in International Contexts (Routledge Studies in Multimodality) 1st Edition Vásquez RoccaLilianaArtemevaNatashaGrace Fo BourgetChloë, Multimodality Studies in International Contexts (Routledge Studies in Multimodality) 1st Edition. Routledge: New York and Abingdon, 2023, 314 pp., ISBN: 9781032434872
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The growing conduction of multimodality studies over the last decade has aimed to respond to and inquire about communication beyond words in an ever-changing and globalised society.Rooting from this idea, the book Multimodality Studies in International Contexts: Contemporary Trends and Challenges (2024) places its focus on two major variables in contemporary multimodality research.On the one hand, it aims to examine the variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks existing in international studies on multimodality.On the other hand, it seeks to showcase the diversity of contexts across cultures, languages, and countries, and the challenges these factors entail in multimodality research.This book is included in a book series edited by Kay O'Halloran, Routledge Studies in Multimodality, which endeavours to enhance comprehension of multimodal resources encompassing sound, gestures, spatial elements, language, 3-D artifacts, visual imagery, architecture, music, and actions.Furthermore, it aims to elucidate how these resources harmonise to engender significance within multimodal entities and occurrences.This volume is organised into four parts, each examining an aspect of current trends in international approaches to multimodality.The first part consists of a historical review of multimodality from a critical perspective in South and Central America and South Africa.After presenting this chronicled inspection, the second part discusses the queries that arise through the examination of the multimodal dimension in education in Uruguay, Canada, Spain, and New Zealand.Another context in which multimodality is considered is that of the third part, which features the role of this field of study in social interaction and meaning-creation in the Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, and Chile.Lastly, the fourth part is dedicated to offering a brief review of the aspects commented on in the aforementioned sections through a focus on a Swedish context.The chapters of this book are written by different scholars around the world specialising in multimodality studies.A total of 13 chapters can be found in the volume, and 30 researchers are featured as authors of the different chapters that constitute the volume and that are organised in thematic sections.Regarding the editors of this book, three wellacknowledged figures in the field of multimodality research can be found.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.015 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.083 | 0.026 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".