This chapter provides an overview of multimodal corpora, highlighting their significance in analyzing communication that integrates various modes such as speech, gesture, and gaze. The chapter defines both a mode and a multimodal corpus before introducing key types of multimodal corpora, including video-recorded interactions, corpora of signed languages, and datasets combining text and images. Prominent examples of multimodal corpora such as the ViMELF, FreMIC, and AMI corpora showcase the variety of multimodal corpora that exist and the various techniques employed to construct multimodal corpora. Challenges in constructing and annotating multimodal corpora are discussed, including temporal alignment, manual annotation efforts, and data-sharing limitations due to privacy concerns. The chapter emphasizes the importance of tailoring multimodal corpora to specific research questions while acknowledging the trade-offs of specialization. Advancements in technology, such as automated tagging and collaborative tools, are proposed as potential solutions to enhance accessibility and interoperability. A case study on turn management in virtual meetings illustrates the application of multimodal analysis, offering insights into how participants request and allocate turns in mediated contexts. The chapter serves as a guide for researchers navigating the methodological complexities of multimodal corpus-based studies.

The Conclusion reflects on how digital technologies have become inseparable from the rhythms, identities and power structures of the Brussels Bubble and the European Union itself. Drawing on Stefan Zweig’s vision of technology as both a unifier and disruptor, the chapter argues that the EU is now a virtual social field – a polity where governance, diplomacy and community are co-constituted by digital infrastructures. Through ethnographic insights, it reveals five key transformations: the EU as a digitally mediated space; social media as a symbolic economy of insider recognition; diplomats and officials as cyborgs, their bodies and selves extended by devices; the everyday negotiation of digitalisation, where technology is not imposed but adapted and contested; and the necessity of a practice turn for understanding global governance in the digital age.

The chapter underscores that digital tools do not merely facilitate EU politics – they reshape its boundaries, hierarchies and temporalities. From WhatsApp groups to virtual meetings, technology is both a site of empowerment and vulnerability, challenging ideals of transparency, equality and sovereignty. Ultimately, the EU’s future will be negotiated at the intersection of human agency and digital mediation, where the ambivalence of progress and disruption mirrors the complexities of European integration itself.

In Canadian corporate law, shareholders occupy a preferential role vis-à-vis other stakeholders. Shareholders are the only stakeholder with statutory rights, such as the right to elect and remove directors. Against this backdrop, this chapter examines the Canadian corporate governance landscape from the perspective of shareholders and examines the legal and market tools that shareholders have available to them. This chapter also explores the limitations and effectiveness of these mechanisms and considers various market actors who influence shareholder behaviour and can facilitate shareholder engagement. The chapter concludes with an analysis of three trends in shareholder engagement in Canada: (i) institutional investor engagement on issues at the core of ESG; (ii) the role of proxy advisory firms and the influence they wield over institutional shareholders; and (iii) the immediate  impact of COVID-19 on shareholder engagement.