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Literacy in the new media age / Gunther Kress.

Author/creator Kress, Gunther R.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxiii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject(s)
Series Literacies
Literacies. ^A446912
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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014397752
ISBN0415253551
ISBN9780415253550
ISBN041525356X (pbk.)
ISBN9780415253567 (pbk.)
ISBN9780203299234
ISBN020329923X

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