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Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. Repurposing as remediation is both what is “unique to digital worlds” and what denies the possibility of that uniqueness” (50). In chapter one of this text, the authors discuss immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation. Fittingly, they offer the disclaimer that they make…
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 and linguistic communication (i.e. learning is multimodal) and involves the transformation of information across different…
Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media – Kress
“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): 110-19. In this 2004 article, continues his discussion of multimodality and representation…
Interview with Gunther Kress
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 on the topic. She grounds this discussion in Kress’s…
Visual Social Semiotics – Harrison
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 video, as well. Also, the concept of social semiotics relates to my…
Social Construction of Reality – Internalization – Berger & Luckmann
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 into the objective world of a society or a sector of it” (130). Having…
Dear Little Evil Gut Bug
Here is a letter I found necessary to write today. While it is completely off topic from my studies, perhaps it will provide you with some understanding as to why there will be no on-topic post today. Dear little evil gut bug, I am writing to implore you to cease your operations, which surely must…
Externalization, Objectivation, and Internalization – Berger & Luckmann
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. “Society is a human product. Society is an objective reality. Man is a social product” (61). Berger and Luckman argue that one must…
The Social Construction of Reality – Berger & Luckmann
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. “Man’s consciousness is determined by his social being.” – Marx I open this post with the Marx quote because of its direct relevance…
Equilibrium Theory – Argyle & Dean
Argyle, M., & Dean, J. (1965). Eye contact, distance, and affiliation. Sociometry, 28, 289- 304. Argyle, M., & Cook, M. (1976). Gaze and mutual gaze. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Uni- versity Press. Another example of the discussion on whether there is a certain level of interchangeability of verbal and non-verbal cues of immediacy in the realm…