Im Oktober darf ich in Greifswald einen Workshop für die #ResearchSchool geben ⤵️. Darauf freue ich mich sehr!

Multimodality & AI Research Day Join us for the Multimodality (and AI) Research Day on May 7 between 10:00-13:00 (organized by the Multimodality and AI research group and the Jantina...

Our MM&AI Research Day is only a month away - and we are proud of having both Theo van Leeuwen and John Bateman with us for an exciting morning in Groningen!

If you are around, please join us on 7 May for their talks, an interactive discussion and a book launch!

www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm...

Special thanks, @diemerstefan.bsky.social, for bringing vegan chocolate!

Starting slide for Stefan Diemer‘s keynote

Chocolate menu offered for Stefan Diemer‘s keynote

#DigitalPalates is waiting for @diemerstefan.bsky.social‘s keynote

The evolution of (online) taste: a gustatory journey

with chocolate offered for during the keynote! But don’t eat it yet!

Totally!

What a great session this was! So much motivation, so many questions!

Ready, too! Very excited about the many different perspectives on food that we are about to meet.

Our co-edited open access book with @catherinebouko.bsky.social, Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images, now has a cover and critics’ reviews 📘 ✨ www.routledge.com/Six-Critical...

Very late, because I missed it: congratulations, Henrika!! 🌷🌷

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Delighted that our article analysing the forms and functions of Trump’s shrug gestures has been nominated for the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division’s “Outstanding Journal Article of the Year” award. The article is published in Visual Communication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Digital Food Discourses in Berlin in March! 🥳

Screen with starting slide for the DECMODE#1 workshop in Groningen, program handouts on the table in front

All set for our two-day collab between @rug.nl and Uni Hamburg on multimodal hate.

Thanks to both universities for the seed money and for everyone joining!

Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

#multimodality #digitalhumanities

Registration for DEC-MODE#1: Deciphering Multimodal Hate In a short series of lightning talks, the newly built research group DEC-MODE aims at giving initial insights into their newly started work on multimodal hate speech. Please register here if you want...

Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Program Workshop Deciphering Multimodal Hate

Hate comes in many forms and especially the role that (audio)visuals play in our social media communication has not been addressed systematically.

This is what we will do in a new collab between NL & D. First impressions:

12 February 2026
11.00-15.30, including lunch!
Norman Building

Nicht vergessen: Heute ist wieder #ArtificialFriday! 🗓️

🎓 Online-Kolloquium | Teilnahme kostenfrei
⏰ 14 Uhr

Mit
🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) zu metaphorischen Konzeptualisierungen von KI
🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI

➡️ Jetzt noch anmelden: artificial-friday.de

Am Freitag darf ich beim Artificial Friday vortragen - ich freu mich sehr darauf!

Finishing things in 2025:

This big, big project is now out!

Leaflet Cover for MARGE #3: Multimodal Argumentation in Everyday Conversation & the Media: Putting Methods to the Test in Salzburg, December 2025

Almost feels like a big family gathering:

MARGE #3: Multimodal Argumentation in Everyday Conversation & the Media: Putting Methods to the Test

Today and tomorrow in Salzburg, organized by Hartmut Stöckl.

The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our final talk for 2025 is on 10th December and is by Dr Yu Zhu from Qilu Normal University (see abstract below).

#CfP! Special Visual Essays Issue on More-than-Human Perspectives in Visual Communication, guest edited by Juhri Salamet. Extended abstracts due 20 January 2026. More information: www.designresearchsociety.org/events/cfp-s...

Mum and 3 kids walking through an autumn forest.

Yes, making the best of autumn today!

What a beautiful photo of the church and the city!

See you soon again, Henrika!

Helsinki it is!

Thank you for joining us in Groningen and see you there!

#12ICOM #13ICOM

Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!

Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!

Look out for a call for papers next summer!

🥰 Thank you!

🙏🏻

Safe travels and see you soon!

12ICOM Name Badge

12ICOM sweet bag to keep everyone happy. Multimodalicious!

Keynote speech audience, chaired by Dimitris Serafis

Asli Özyürek‘s keynote in the Mennonite Church

What a vibe!
#12ICOM in Groningen is multimodalicious

Thanks to @thiip.bsky.social, Louise Ravelli, Bart Verheij and @asliozyurek.bsky.social for their brilliant keynotes!

The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group, co-organised by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. We start on 22nd October with Dan Thorpe from CCCU (see abstract contact details to join below)

Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style - TJ Thomson, 2025 To the general public, text-to-image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, seem to work through magic and, indeed, their inner workings are often frustrati...

🔗 The open-access study can be read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🙏 Thanks to @nataliialaba.com for inspiring this study and to she and @neous.bsky.social for organising a panel on visual style that we presented at #ADDA5 and that helped sharpen my arguments in this paper.