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Literacy in the new media age / Gunther Kress.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xiii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415253551
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2244 22
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Media & Communication | Computer Science and Engineering | Management Information System
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks 302.2244 K9242l 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 025542
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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.

Computer Science and Engineering