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Type: educational

Status: to read

Author: George Pennington

2007-12-21

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Type: technical

Status: to read

Authors: Anthony Baldry Paul J. Thibault

Tags: technology discourse meaning multimodality

Description: What are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internetWhat are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them? How can multimedia and internet help us in multimodal discourse analysis? What postproduction and authoring skills are needed to analyse a multimodal text or to develop a corpus of multimodal texts? How does integrating multimedia meaning-making resources into hypertext multiply our meaning-making potential? How does the study of language relate to multimodality and multimedia, in particular in the e-learning age? How, and to what extent, will multimodal discourse analysis re-shape linguistics? In its attempt to provide answers to the questions raised above, and many others, this book proposes concrete solutions to the problems of multimodal text analysis and transcription of printed texts, websites and film. As such, it constitutes a much needed course in multimodal text transcription and analysis. It also suggests ways in which multimodal discourse analysis can help both educators and students understand how meaning is made in the e-learning environments that now play such an important role in our lives. In both these respects, readers are encouraged to use the book in conjunction with an associated and freely accessible website which provides many illustrations and exercises that further contextualise and exemplify the insights and descriptions provided by the book. As befits a coursebook, the individual chapters of the book are carefully organised in such a way as to provide a step-by-step progression in theoretical and descriptive complexity. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: technical

Status: to read

Authors: J. David Bolter Jay David Bolter

Tags: media writing meaning hypertextuality representation

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: David Trend (ed.)

Tags: technology culture communication knowledge meaning

Description: Reading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debateReading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debate about the future of information technology. Definitive essays by many of the field's most widely read commentators - Virilio, Haraway, Landow, Castells, Aronowitz, Plant, Ross, Zizek, Guattari - range across issues that are central to digital life and culture: knowledge production, cyber-identity, computer art, online community, Internet commerce, and the effect of technology on work and leisure. With contributions from both inside and outside the technology field, Reading Digital Culture will be essential reading for anyone interested in - and living in the midst of - the digital revolution. ...

2006-04-06

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: John Markoff

Tags: technology culture meaning

2006-04-06

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Type: scientific

Status: to read

Authors: Gilles Fauconnier Mark Turner

Tags: thinking cognition

Description: Another of Fauconnier's gems - memory, learning, symbolic thought and language acquisition;Another of Fauconnier's gems - memory, learning, symbolic thought and language acquisition; metaphors and thinking; cognitive theory....

2005-10-14