international researchers
 Najma Al Zidjaly
Collaborator Global Geosemiotisc Project and Who are we? project
Najma Al Zidjaly is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English (College of Arts & Social Sciences) at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. She is the editor of Building Bridges: Integrating Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation in Pedagogy and Research (2009). Her other publications include articles in Language in Society, Visual Communication, Communication & Medicine, Multilingua and Disability Studies Quarterly; and chapters in Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction (2010) and Multimodality in Practice: Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology (2011). Najma’s primary research interests are disability, human agency, geosemiotics, multimodality, intercultural communication and new media technology and Arab (Omani) identity.
 Andrea Brandt
Independent Artist, Germany
Collaborator Poetry-to-painting project
Andrea Brandt studied architecture in Aachen; and has been working as independent artist since 1998. She has exhibited her art in Köln, Steinfurt, Greven, Rheine, Neuenkirchen und Wettringen; and since1999 Andrea haas been teaching art and painting to adults and children.
 Angela Dionisio
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Collaborator Who are we? project
Angela Paiva Dionisio is Associate Professor of the Portuguese Language at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, where she has taught since 1993. Her research interests are in genre studies, multimodal studies, visual conventions and teaching. She is author of "Narrativas Conversacionais" (Bagaço, 2009), co-editor of "Gêneros Textuais e Ensino" (Parabola Editorial, 2010), and co-editor of "Leituras Introdutórias em Linguagem Series" (Cortez, 2011) and "Bate-papo Acadêmico Series" (www.nigufpe.com.br) (2011).
 Gaëlle Ferré
Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, France
Collaborator Who are we? project
I am currently an Associate Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Nantes, France. I mainly teach English phonetics & phonology, but also discourse analysis both at undergraduate and graduate levels. In research, I work primarily in the field of Multimodality in English, in a linguistic-oriented approach, which aims at understanding the organization of information from different modalities in speech to form a message. The multimodal information structure of the message is revealed by corpora of spontaneous speech, in which the modalities I take into account are verbal (semantics and discourse organization / pragmatics), vocal (prosody) and visual (gestures). My recent ANR-supported research in Multimodality has led me to work on the annotation of co-verbal gestures, prosody and discourse structure in conversational French which will enable me to compare the multimodal structuring of discourse in the two languages.
 Denis Gagnon
Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Canada
Collaborator Who are we? project
Denis Gagnon is a professor of anthropology at Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He holds the Canada Research Chair on Métis Identity. This Chair, the first of its kind to examine Métis identity, has led to the development of Métis Studies in anthropology, which fills a gap in the social sciences and the humanities at the theoretical and empirical level. Among its objectives are the establishment of an international network for research into Métis identity and cultures, ethnological research in Canadian communities and abroad, training undergraduate, master's and doctoral students in research techniques and the publication of results through seminars, talks and articles. Denis Gagnon is also a co-researcher of the Community University Research Alliance on Francophone’s Identities of Western Canada (ARUC-IFO) for the section on the preservation and promotion of Francophone Métis cultural and linguistic heritage, and he is regular member of the Centre Interuniversitaire d’Études et de Recherches Autochtones at Laval University (CIERA).
Muhammad Zaffwan Idris
Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia
Collaborator Who are we? project
Leila Janot de Vasconcelos
Faculdade Pernambucana de Saúde, Brazil
Collaborator Who are we? project
 Rodney Jones
City University Hong Kong
Collaborator Who are we? project
Rodney Jones' main research interests include discourse analysis, health communication and language and sexuality. For the past fifteen years he has worked with colleagues such as Ron Scollon and Sigrid Norris in developing an approach to discourse analysis called mediated discourse analysis, an approach that focuses on how people use discourse along with other cultural tools to accomplish concrete social actions. This approached is outlined in his book Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis (edited with Sigrid Norris, Routledge 2005). He has applied this approach to variety of domains including computer mediated communication, sexual interaction, drug abuse, disability and collaborative writing. He is currently working on a number of projects including an examination of the role of discourse in the management of risk in everyday life and an exploration of practices of collaborative writing in the creative communication industries.
 Carmen Daniela Maier
Aarhus University, Denmark
Collaborator Who are we? project
Carmen Daniela Maier, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and member of the Knowledge Communication Research Group and Corporate Communication Centre at Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. Among her latest publications are the articles “Communicating business greening and greenwashing in global media” in The International Communication Gazette and “Mediating Argumentative Deconstruction of Advertising Discourses” in Learning, Media and Technology. Her main research area is corporate communication, and in this context she focuses on the multimodal analyses of specialized knowledge communication and of environmental discourses in corporate videos.
 Sky Marsen
City University, Hong Kong
Collaborator Global Geosemiotisc Project
Sky Marsen is a semiotician and narrative theorist. Her interests include writing studies, stylistic text analysis of fiction and film, and professional communication. She is author of the books Narrative Dimensions of Philosophy (Palgrave 2006), Communication Studies (Palgrave 2006), and Professional Writing (Palgrave third edition in 2013), as well as of several articles on written discourse analysis and semiotics. She has designed courses and taught at universities internationally, including at California Institute of Technology, The University of Western Australia, Victoria University of Wellington, and City University of Hong Kong.
 Thomas Metten
Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Collaborator Who are we? project
Thomas Metten studied German Language and Literature, Philosophy and History of Art at the University Koblenz-Landau in Germany. In his Ph.D. Thesis he developed a media theory of language based on concepts of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. At present, he works as a Lecturer in the Department of German Language and Literature Studies as well as in the Department for Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Previously, he worked as a university spokesperson, a freelance journalist and a PR agent for newspapers, press agencies and other public institutions. His major research interests are language and media theory, identity and diversity in interaction, discourse analysis and image theory
 Tom Randolph
Sookmyung Women's University, Korea
Collaborator Who are we? project
 Pirkko Raudaskoski
Aalborg University, Denmark
Collaborator Geosemiotics project
Pirkko Raudaskoski is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. She received her PhD in 1999 from the Department of English at the University of Oulu, Finland. She is Docent (Reader) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Oulu.
 Martin Reisigl
University of Bern, Switzerland
Collaborator Who are we? project
 Suzie Scollon
Independent Researcher, USA
Collaborator Global Geosemiotisc Project
Suzanne Wong Scollon, activist sociolinguist and geosemiotician based in Seattle, Washington on the Pacific Rim, with Ron Scollon pioneered the ethnography of communication and developed nexus analysis. Her current concerns are mitigating effects of runaway climate change by following networks of discourse across space and time. She is interested in the ontogenesis of discourse, especially alternate worldviews that do not originate in Aristotle, as well as the phylogenesis of discourse including embodied semiosis. At the turn of the millennium she was documenting how anticipation of group interaction through monitoring news media affected a woman’s action during the Taiwan Missile Crisis.
 Mikolaj Sobocinski
Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Poland
Collaborator Geosemiotics and Who are we? project
 Kirk P. H. Sullivan
Umeå University, Sweden
Collaborator Who are we? project
Kirk P. H. Sullivan is currently Professor of Linguistics at Umeå University, Sweden. He is also Docent (Reader) in phonetics and educational work and director of research studies in the Department of Language Studies. Kirk was born in England, studied at Bangor, Loughborough and Southampton Universities before doing a post-doc at Otago University, New Zealand and then taking up his current post at Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests are diverse and beyond this project range from forensic linguistics, language acquisition, perception, computer keystroke logging and literacies, to higher education. Kirk’s eclectic range of interests have led him in the past 10 years to study part-time for a Doctor of Education degree at Bristol University and postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning in Higher Education at the Open University. He has also studied master’s level courses in Research Ethics.
 Jose P. Zagal
DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media
Interested in the MRC
José P. Zagal is a game designer and scholar. He teaches a variety of courses on game design and analysis, online communities, and ethics. In his research he explores the analysis, design, and use of videogames for encouraging ethical reasoning and reflection. He is also interested in supporting games
literacy through the use of collaborative learning environments. His book on this topic, Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education was published in 2010. More recently he is
the editor of The Videogame Ethics Reader, unique collection of writings on videogames and ethics by leading scholars and practitioners. Zagal is a member of the executive board of the Digital Games Research
Association (DiGRA). José received his PhD in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008, his M.Sc. in engineering sciences and a B.S. in industrial engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1999 and 1997.
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