Shaping the North Through Multimodal and Intermedial Interaction

“This thought-provoking book offers a refreshingly interdisciplinary approach to the study of the North, understood both as a conceptual and geographical area. Readers interested in multimodality and intermediality will find the case studies illuminating and inspiring. The book also crafts a compelling argument for building sturdier bridges across linguistics, art, communication, and media studies.”

–Ingrid de Saint-Georges, Associate Professor in Educational Science, Université de Luxembourg

“I find the whole concept highly original and fitting in contemporary medial debates. I also find the division between the two sections ingenious.”

–Niklas Salmose, Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Linnaeus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Växjö, Sweden

This book emphasizes humans interacting and participating in making meaning with multimodal resources and relating experience via intermedial means. The contributors explore diverse ways of mediating work, education, arts, and culture and ask how interactive participation involves experiences of the north either as a physical setting or a more abstract cultural condition that shapes the activity. The book engages with topical theoretical debate and puts novel methodology to test, providing essential reading for scholars and students in this rich and rapidly developing global field of research.

Juha-Pekka Alarauhio, Lecturer in English at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research work focuses on literary narrative structures and traditions as facilitators in literary communications. He has previously published on Matthew Arnold’s writings.  


Tiina Räisänen, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has published on professional communication in global settings for example in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and European Journal of International Management. 


Jarkko Toikkanen, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Adjunct Professor in English at Tampere University, Finland. He has launched a three-tier model of mediality to study the intermedial experience of medial environments including literature and television. 

Riikka Tumelius, Doctoral Researcher at the Research Unit for Languages and Literature, University of Oulu, Finland. She has published on designing for language learning in technology-mediated environments.