Janina Wildfeuer

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.

12ICOM Groningen 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen

#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!

We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home:
bit.ly/12ICOMLive

Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!

12ICOM Groningen - SCHEDULE Conference SCHEDULE | 12icom 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen

❗ The full #12ICOM conference program is now available online!

Registration is still open until 15 October - or until all places are filled.

sites.google.com/rug.nl/12ico...

Hoe AI betekenis geeft: ‘We weten niet precies hoe de interpretatie tot stand komt’ Digitale communicatie draait niet alleen om tekst. Ook niet-verbale expressies spelen een grote rol. Janina Wildfeuer, universitair hoofddocent aan de...

Since this year, I am a scholar of the Jantina Tammes School @rug.nl - and here is a post on my work for/with the school and our multimodality group!

What an honor to be so prominently featured! 🥰

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

Und nun die dritte Keynote von Professorin Janina Wildfeuer!
#GAL2025

Ich durfte gestern auf der #GAL2025 sprechen - was für eine Ehre!

Aww, danke!

12ICOM conference poster

Preparations are in full swing and we look forward to welcoming everyone in Groningen soon for #12ICOM:
12th International Conference on Multimodality
29-31 October 2025, House of Connections, Groningen
bit.ly/12ICOM
Watch our website for the full program to be online soon!