Literacy in the New Media Age

Informationen zum Autor Gunther Kress is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Klappentext This important and influential book considers how the Internet, like the printing press in its time, has changed the politics of communication and explores how the changes will affect the future of literacy. Zusammenfassung This important and influential book considers how the Internet, like the printing press in its time, has changed the politics of communication and explores how the changes will affect the future of literacy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The futures of literacy: modes, logics and affordances 2. Preface 3. Going into a different world 4. Literacy and multimodality: a theoretical framework 5. What is literacy?: resources of the mode of writing 6. A social theory of text: genre 7. Multimodality, multimedia and genre 8. Meaning and frames: punctuations of semiosis 9. Reading as semiosis: interpreting the world and ordering the world 10. Some items for an agenda of further thinking

About the author

Gunther Rolf KressMBE is Professor of Semiotics and Education in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media within the Institute of Education of University College London, UK

Product details

• Authors: Gunther Kress, Kress Gunther
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2003
• EAN: 9780415253550
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25355-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Literacies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Literature: history & criticism, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Applied linguistics for ELT