ISBN:
0415253551
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 186 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Literacies
Parallel Title:
Print version Literacy in the New Media Age
DDC:
302.2244
Keywords:
Computers and literacy
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Written communication
Abstract:
This book explores all aspects of the materiality of writing in an integrated social semiotic and multimodal framework
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; LITERACY IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; 1 The futures of literacy: modes, logics and affordances; Affordances of mode and facilities of media; Right now, an objection; 2 Preface; 3 Going into a different world; Into new contexts for writing; The new environment of writing; Writing and literacy; Literacy; A next step: the alphabet; Transcription systems; Language, speech, writing; 4 Literacy and multimodality: a theoretical framework; A need for new thinking; A 'toolkit'
Description / Table of Contents:
The 'decline of writing' and cultural pessimism: means for conducting a debateModes and fitness for purpose; Modes and the shaping of knowledge; Mode and epistemological commitment; Mode and causality; Mode and conceptual-cognitive complexity; Mode, imagination and design; 5 What is literacy?: resources of the mode of writing; 'Writing' or 'literacy'?; Writing as transcription; Writing in the age of the screen: aspects of visual grammar; So what is writing?; Two examples of 'transformation'; Sentence, texts and the social environment; 6 A social theory of text: genre
Description / Table of Contents:
Genre in theorising about literacy: some introductory remarksThe genre debates; What, then, is genre? What does it look like?; Genre as sequence: temporality; 7 Multimodality, multimedia and genre; A multimodal view of genre; Meanings of genres in multimodal texts; Genre as design: text and the new media; Genre labels; Genre and educational strategies; 8 Meaning and frames: punctuations of semiosis; Punctuation as a means for making meaning; Text as the domain of punctuation; Some examples; Speech and writing; One further example of the speech-writing relation
Description / Table of Contents:
Dynamic interrelations of framing systemsTrading between semiotic systems; Framing in multimodal texts: writing and image; 9 Reading as semiosis: interpreting the world and ordering the world; From telling the world to showing the world; From telling the world to showing the world; Reading as sign-making; Reading as sign-making; The world as told: reading as interpretation; The world as shown: reading as design; Choosing how to read: reading paths; Reading as establishing and imposing criteria of relevance; Reading paths and access to knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
Shifts in power: (re)producers of multimodal textsThe future of reading in the multimodal landscape of the 'West'; 10 Some items for an agenda of further thinking; Requisite theories of meaning; Imagination; Modes, bodies and dispositions; Authorship, authority and knowledge; 'Standards' and their decline; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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