Category Archives: OVC
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 and attain the real. However, the real is not some objective,…
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…
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…
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…
Interchangeability of Verbal and Nonverbal Cues – Walther
Walther, J. B., Loh, T., & Granka, L. (2005). Let me count the ways – The interchange of verbal and nonverbal cues in computer-mediated and face-to-face affinity. [Article]. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24(1), 36-65. That CMC does not offer nonverbal cues in communication has been discussed by most early research on online communication…
Computer-Mediated Communication: Hyperpersonal – Walther
Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication Research, 23(1), 3-43. Hyperpersonal In the last few posts, I discussed this Walther article and the ways in which computer-mediated communication (CMC) can be more impersonal than face-to-face (FtF) communication and the ways in which it can been as interpersonal as FtF. In…
Computer-Mediated Communication: Interpersonal – Walther
Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication Research, 23(1), 3-43. Interpersonal Continuing from the Last post, after considering the impersonal perspective of CMC, Walther goes on to look at the interpersonal perspective. “The model assumes that communicators in CMC, like other communicators, are driven to develop social relationships” (10). While…