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Humanizing Scholarship: Going Public Via Multimodality, Mario L. Avalos
Humanizing Scholarship: Going Public Via Multimodality, Mario L. Avalos
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
“Humanizing Scholarship” offers a look into the ways that multimodality can be used to make the scholarly conversations had within the academy more accessible to members of the public. This thesis acknowledges and echoes the responsibility academics have to bridging the gap between their research and the people who so often serve as the basis for the ethnographic work being done in academia. My project does two things: First, it brings together some of the conversations surrounding multimodality and public scholarship. Second, it offers some first-hand models of multimodal compositions—the short films Don Armando and The Adjunct, and the screenplay …