Literacy in the New Media AgeRoutledge, 2 sep 2003 - 208 pagina's In this 'new media age' the screen has replaced the book as the dominant medium of communication. This dramatic change has made image, rather than writing, the centre of communication. In this groundbreaking book, Gunther Kress considers the effects of a revolution that has radically altered the relationship between writing and the book. Taking into account social, economic, communication and technological factors, Kress explores how these changes will affect the future of literacy. Kress considers the likely larger-level social and cultural effects of that future, arguing that the effects of the move to the screen as the dominant medium of communication will produce far-reaching shifts in terms of power - and not just in the sphere of communication. The democratic potentials and effects of the new information and communication technologies will, Kress contends, have the widest imaginable consequences. Literacy in the New Media Age is suitable for anyone fascinated by literacy and its wider political and cultural implications. It will be of particular interest to those studying education, communication studies, media studies or linguistics. |
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... shapes of knowledge. The world told is a different world to the world shown. The effects of the move to the screen as the major medium of communication will produce far-reaching shifts in relations of power, and not just in the sphere ...
... shapes how we represent the world, which in turn shapes how we see and interact with the world. The genre of the display is the culturally most potent formal expression of this. 'The world narrated' is a different world to 'the world ...
... shape or as letter-shape gives no indication of its meaning, it is there to be filled with meaning. It is that 'filling with meaning' which constitutes the work of imagination that we do with language. In what may seem a paradox given ...
... shape, for instance – and others less salient again encourages a reading path. However, I say 'encourages' rather than 'compels' as I did with writing. Reading the elements of an image 'out of order' is easy or at least possible; it is ...
... shape the organisation of the page. Contemporary pages are beginning to resemble, more and more, both the look and the deeper sense of contemporary screens. Writing on the page is not immune in any way from this move, even though the ...
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a theoretical framework | 35 |
resources of the mode of writing | 60 |
genre | 83 |
7 Multimodality multimedia and genre | 105 |
punctuations of semiosis | 121 |
interpreting the world and ordering the world | 139 |
10 Some items for an agenda of further thinking | 168 |
Bibliography | 177 |
Index | 181 |