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...
Continue reading ...“Each mode forces me into making certain kinds of commitments about meaning, intended or not. The choice of mode has profound effects on meaning…” (111). Kress, Gunther. "Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media." Information Design Journal & Document Design 12 2 (2004): ...
Continue reading ...Bearne, Eve. "Interview with Gunther Kress." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 26 3 (2005): 287-99. In this 2005 interview, Eve Bearne from the University of Cambridge, UK discusses multimodality and new media with Gunther Kress, a Professor at University of London and expert...
Continue reading ...Harrison, Claire. "Visual Social Semiotics: Understanding How Still Images Make Meaning." Technical Communication 50 1 (2003): 46. This article, while focusing on still images and the way they make meaning, is a discussion of visual social semiotics and therefore has many applications to ...
Continue reading ...Berger, Peter L., Thomas Luckmann, and Texas Tech University. Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor Book. New York: Doubleday, 1967. Socialization: [T]he comprehensive and consistent induction of an individual in...
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