Literacy in the new media age /

Kress, Gunther R.

Literacy in the new media age / Gunther Kress. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. - xiii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Literacies .

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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Computers and literacy.
Written communication.
Mass media--Social aspects.
Ordinateurs et alphabétisation.
Communication écrite.
Médias--Aspect social.
Computers and literacy.
Mass media--Social aspects.
Written communication.
Alfabetisme.
Letramento.
Meios de comunicação (aspectos sociais)
Computador no ensino.
Alphabétisation.
Aspect social.
Communication écrite.
Connaissance informatique.
Information électronique.
Informatique éducative.
Média numérique.
Ordinateur.

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