With every tool, man is perfecting his own organs, whether motor or sensory, or removing limits to their functioning. – Sigmund Freud (1929). Veltman, Kim H. Understanding New Media: Augmented Knowledge & Culture. University of Calgary Press, 2006. Veltman lists the major functions of co...
Continue reading ...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 ...
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...
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