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- Subject: Re: Multimedia and hypermedia
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 22:44:17 GMT
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- >This is not a futuristic fantasy. This is now. The nature of rhetoric and
- >composition has already changed. We are going to need to deal with
- >audiovisual argumentation, multimedia expression, hypertext, and electronic
- >communication and we will have to teach students the languages of images,
- >video, sound, and text as they interact in new and surprising ways. What a
- >world!
- >Peg Syverson, msyverso@ucsd.edu
- >Dimensions of Culture, 0525, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093
- >(619) 558-1514
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- Just so, Peg, and so some of us have been arguing for a couple of years
- now. But we also need to come to terms with some differences here and with
- our own (or at least my own) essential muteness in the face of the images.
- If we could say what they are we wouldn't need to have them represented
- graphically or in 3-D or whatever. So it seems to go without saying, to me
- at least, that pictures and sounds are integral parts of the meaning-making
- that goes on in everyday life. Yet, academe seems to value the word
- primarily, to see illustration and sound effects as ancillary and
- decorative (your son, after all, turned in a printed version, presumably
- because that is what his teacher would know how to evalutate, but surely
- the words in their singular stream could only be an impoverished subset of
- his meaning). I think we need to examine carefully what roles and values we
- (as teachers of composition) are willing to accord the tactile, the iconic,
- the aural in the complex process of explaning something or arguing
- something or constructing any other kind of discourse.
-
- (When I gave a talk on hypermedia composing at a university in California 4
- or 5 years ago, the teachers of business writing who were the majority of
- my audience were uniformally disdainful of sounds and sights embedded in
- "serious" work.)
-
-
- Nancy Kaplan
- University of Texas at Dallas
- Box 830688
- Richardson, TX 75083-0688
-
- (214) 690-2071
-