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Literacy in the new media age / Gunther Kress.

By: Material type: TextSeries: LiteraciesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: xiii, 186 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415253551
  • 9780415253550
  • 041525356X
  • 9780415253567
  • 9780203299234
  • 020329923X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2 KRE 2010
Contents:
The futures of literacy: modes, logics and affordances -- Preface -- Going into a different world -- Literacy and multimodality: a theoretical framework -- What is literacy?: resources of the mode of writing -- A social theory of text: genre -- Multimodality, multimedia and genre -- Meaning and frames: punctuations of semiosis -- Reading as semiosis: interpreting the world and ordering the world -- Some items for an agenda of further thinking.
Summary: Kress explores all aspects of the materiality of writing in an integrated social semiotic and multimodal framework. He reveals ways in which new media is changing literacy and looks at how we should think about literacy in the age of the new media.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.

The futures of literacy: modes, logics and affordances -- Preface -- Going into a different world -- Literacy and multimodality: a theoretical framework -- What is literacy?: resources of the mode of writing -- A social theory of text: genre -- Multimodality, multimedia and genre -- Meaning and frames: punctuations of semiosis -- Reading as semiosis: interpreting the world and ordering the world -- Some items for an agenda of further thinking.

Kress explores all aspects of the materiality of writing in an integrated social semiotic and multimodal framework. He reveals ways in which new media is changing literacy and looks at how we should think about literacy in the age of the new media.

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