- Affordances of digital/multimodality: “Elizabeth Daley notes that multimedia texts can embody many of the elements of traditional print text (concepts, abstractions, comparisons, etc.), ‘while at the same time engaging our emotional and aesthetic sensibilities’ (34). In allowing me to create a living voice to present Millie’s letters, to present the actual handwritten texts as they were being voiced, to present images of the man to whom they were written, to sometimes lend to these music he had himself played, and to speak my own understanding in connection with all of these elements—through all these affordances, digital technologies granted me an unexpected intimacy with all the human realities the letters embodied. They granted a new life to these lost people, to their long-buried emotions and hopes, to their disappointed love; and they granted me the possibility of a new and deeper understanding of all these things as well, and a deeper imagining.”
- Collaboration: “Through, we typically don’t think of it as collaboration, editorial comment and advice is just that. And collaboration is, perhaps, the most important and enduring lesson of digital multimodal composing—a lesson that alters and deepens one’s fundamental understanding of all the elements of traditional composition: how meaning is made; how it is made persuasive to an audience; the role and nature of language—dramatically reframed when language and image are embedded in each other. Just as a multimodal document is an integration of varied and complex resources, so its creation is a necessary integration of varied people’s complex skills, expert assistance, and supportive judgement. There is, of course, much individual effort on the part of a piece’s ‘originator’ (‘author’ hardly, by the end, seems the appropriate word), and that should be recognized as well. For me, multimedia work suggests an image borrowed from that physiology on which our lives depend: the systole of individual, solitary work which leads inescapably to the diastole of collaborative sharing, for both judgement and further development.”
There are two main themes throughout the introduction to this webtext:
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