Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Ryan McCormick Blog Post 6

What is Multimodality? How would you define Modes? What is the tension between Kress and Wysocki’s view of multimodality? Pay attention to how the two treat time and space here


Technically speaking, multimodality “is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language.” In much easier and other terms, multimodality is the bringing together or different modes to preach a certain idea or thought. Modes are the certain ways that points are made to a set of people. The information is the same in different modes, it is how a person presents the information. A poster verses a powerpoint, a video verses a song, etc. Kress states his information using multiple modes for the audience while Wysocki uses one or two. I like Kress’s way better because all people learn and interpret information differently. There are visual learners and digital learns and so on. Using multiple modes will appeal to all kinds of people.

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