Multimodality

Multimodality is a variable approach that understands communication and representation to be more than just text. It has been developed over the past decade to systematically address much-debated questions about changes in society, for instance in relation to new media and technologies. A mode “is a informally and traditionally shaped resource for making meaning. Image, writing, layout, speech, moving images are all examples of different modes In the second,” “semiotic modes, similarly, are shaped by both the basic characteristics and potentialities of the medium and by the requirements, histories and values of societies and their cultures”. Thus, every mode has a different modal resource, which is usually and socially situated and which breaks it down into its parts, because “each has distinct potentials. Wysocki agrees with Kress views on multimodality, in an exaggerated approach. Kress argues that the way space is used on a page affects how we read and interpret the content on that page. While Wysocki argues that we should fully understand the spaces so we can get the full usage out of it.

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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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         Multimodality is the process of combining different modes to portray the same information. A mode is the way something is presented to an audience, not the information itself. For example a video that talks about music, compared to a paper that talks about music those are two different modes. The tension between kress and wysockis view on multimodality is that kress beleives in using many modes to get his point across as to where wysockis view is to get his point across using fewer modes but using them the right way. I also feel like kress focuses more on the visual aspect of the mode more than wysocki.

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Multimodality is the assemblage of different modes to convey a message. One uses these modes to portray the ideas, feelings, and meaning behind a specific message. I would define modes as the composition and what goes into a meaning or message. So a news website has several modes because it is made up of words, page layouts, graphics, images, etc.

Although Wysocki made a point to state that he agrees with Kress, he goes into greater detail and expands farther on the topic of modes, what people expect to see, and time. Kress asks the question what are the limits for people to read a layout and understand the message while Wysocki wants to think past that and start to think where can we not be limited. He believes some of Kress’ points are incomplete because of this. Space and time have an impact on how we understand the context of a message and Wysocki wants to play more into the ideas behind that theory and push the limits on them.

            

Multimodality

Multimodality is a theory of communication that puts together multiple modes and puts them into one. Movies are an example of this because they are very fast images that are combine with audio to relay a message. Modes are resources for making meaning, they also give us a different way to communicate and makes spoken language a less essential source for communication. All different senses are modes. The way that Kress interprets the idea of Multimodality is that we should layout the different modes based on how informative they are. Which, is interesting because Wysocki actually agrees with Kress view and he even expands upon them further. The only noticable difference between Wysockis' view on multimodality and Kress view is that Wysocki focuses more on space than Kress does.

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“What do you see as the relationship between multimodality and genre?”

Multimodality is the idea that a message can be communicated by means other than just language, and combining multiple modes of communication into one. Multimodality utilizes communication through textual, aural, linguistic, spatial, and visual resource modes. Different modes include newspapers, magazines, social media, news on television, etc.

Genre is a category of literary composition. Literary genres are determined generally by the content of a piece of literature. Types of literary genre include poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.

The relationship between multimodality and genre is that they both are concepts of communicating a message in different ways.

Multimodality

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.

Multimodality is the practice of putting multiple modes together and turning it into one. An example of this would be putting pictures and images together to help describe something. Modes are different ways that we can describe something and produce a message. Using different modes lets us use different ways of communication other than just language. These can include all the different senses, from sight to smell. Kress focuses on the idea that we should layout the different modes based on how informative they are and what their interest level is. Wysocki agrees with Kress's views on multimodality, and expands upon them further. He believes that you should use as many different modes as you want, as long as you are able to convey your message. Wysocki also focuses more on space than Kress does when it comes to multimodality.