Challenges of multimedia self-presentation : taking, and mistaking, the show on the road
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01/10/2008
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Resumo |
One privilege enjoyed by new-media authors is the opportunity to realize representations of Self that are rich textual worlds in themselves and also to engage the wider world, with a voice, a smile, imagery, and sound. Still, closer investigation of multimedia composition practices reveals levels of complexity with which the verbal virtuoso is unconcerned. This article argues that while technology-afforded multimedia tools make it comparatively easy to author a vivid text, it is a multiplicatively more complicated matter to vividly realize and publicize an authorial intention. Based on analysis of the digital story creation process of a youth named “Steven,” the authors attempt to demonstrate the operation of two forces upon which the successful multimodal realization of the author's intention may hinge: “fixity” and “fluidity.” The authors show how, within the process of digital self-representation, these forces can intersect to influence multimodal meaning making, and an author's life, in consequential ways. |
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eng |
Publicador |
Sage Publications, Inc. |
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http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30042900/evans-challengesof-2008.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088308322552 |
Palavras-Chave | #writing with new media #multimodal text analysis #youth media and identity #digital storytelling #multimodality #new literacies |
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Journal Article |