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August 2010

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Convergence Culture – Jenkins

Welcome to convergence culture, where old and new media collide, where grassroots and corporate media intersect, where the power of the media producer and the power o the media consumer interact in unpredictable ways. (2) Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Pre...

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Convergence

Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. The promise of push-pull media is to marry the programming experience of television with two key yearnings: navigating information and experience, and connecting to other people. (By Kevin Kelly an...

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Mediation and Remediation

Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. In chapter two, the authors discuss Mediation and Remediation. They note that while hypermedia and transparent media are opposites in design, they have a common goal: to move beyond representations...

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Exploring Learning through Visual, Actional and Linguistic Communication: The Multimodal Environment of a Science Classroom.

Jewitt, Carey, et al. "Exploring Learning through Visual, Actional and Linguistic Communication: The Multimodal Environment of a Science Classroom." Educational Review 53 1 (2001): 5-18. From the abstract: It suggests that learning is realised through the interaction between visual, actional ...

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