Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  What are multimodality, multisemiotics and multiliteracies? (11 May 2005) Some academic research seems to be written in language that is specifically designed to prevent it being read. What is more, this linguistic camouflage sometimes seems to masquerade for concepts that are even harder to comprehend. This article aims to reveal the meaning behind some words that have recently become popular in the educational research literature: 'multimodality', 'multisemiotics' and 'multiliteracies'. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art49.htm Read 122 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: bbc.co.uk calls web community to re-use news feeds     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy