What are Multimodal Projects?
A "text"is defined in the context of multimedia as a piece of communication as a whole, a "mode" is defined as a particular way of communicating within the whole. All texts are multimodal, in that several different ways of communicating are always used within a given text.
According to the New London Group, a collection of education and literacy scholars who first promoted the concept of multimodal literacy, there are five modes of communication. These modes are linguistic, visual, aural, gestural and spatial. A combination of more than one of these modes will be used in all texts.
Written or spoken words fall under the linguistic category.
Things seen other than words fall under the visual category.
Sounds fall under the aural category.
The physical form of the media falls under the spatial category.
The gestural mode involves motion.
These categories seem only somewhat useful to me. How can you separate linguistic from either visual or aural? You have to see the words first in some visual form which involves a particular font and font arrangement, and then if written and read, the words make sounds in your head. All the more so if the words are not written but are spoken, in which case they are aural to begin with.
Does not a gesture have to be seen? Is it really a gesture when one manually interacts with a website? Is that because there is some motion involved? Flashing pop-up adds are a gesture, then, I suppose. Can sounds be considered gestures if they move from one speaker to another?
Medium is one means of conveying a text, media is multiple mediums. A medium is a substance used to convey something, either something physical or an idea.
Some media afford, or promote, a better conveyance of the thing or idea than other media. Water conducts (conveys) heat better than air. Therefore it can be said that water promotes or affords a better conduction of heat than air does.
A "text"is defined in the context of multimedia as a piece of communication as a whole, a "mode" is defined as a particular way of communicating within the whole. All texts are multimodal, in that several different ways of communicating are always used within a given text.
According to the New London Group, a collection of education and literacy scholars who first promoted the concept of multimodal literacy, there are five modes of communication. These modes are linguistic, visual, aural, gestural and spatial. A combination of more than one of these modes will be used in all texts.
Written or spoken words fall under the linguistic category.
Things seen other than words fall under the visual category.
Sounds fall under the aural category.
The physical form of the media falls under the spatial category.
The gestural mode involves motion.
These categories seem only somewhat useful to me. How can you separate linguistic from either visual or aural? You have to see the words first in some visual form which involves a particular font and font arrangement, and then if written and read, the words make sounds in your head. All the more so if the words are not written but are spoken, in which case they are aural to begin with.
Does not a gesture have to be seen? Is it really a gesture when one manually interacts with a website? Is that because there is some motion involved? Flashing pop-up adds are a gesture, then, I suppose. Can sounds be considered gestures if they move from one speaker to another?
Medium is one means of conveying a text, media is multiple mediums. A medium is a substance used to convey something, either something physical or an idea.
Some media afford, or promote, a better conveyance of the thing or idea than other media. Water conducts (conveys) heat better than air. Therefore it can be said that water promotes or affords a better conduction of heat than air does.
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