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Multimodality, "Reading", and "Writing" for the 21st Century

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ID2932495
AuthorsCarey Jewitt (0000-0002-2971-984X, University of London, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume26
Issue3
Pages315-331
Publication date2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300500200011
OpenAlexW2112143461
LanguageEN
Citations received64
References cited12

As words fly onto the computer screen, revolve, and dissolve, image, sound, and movement enter school classrooms in “new” and significant ways, ways that reconfigure the relationship of image and word. In this paper I discuss these “new” modal configurations and explore how they impact on students’ text production and reading in English schools. I look at the changing role of writing on screen, in particular how the visual character of writing and the increasingly dominant role of image unsettle and decentre the predominance of word. Through illustrative examples of ICT applications and students’ interaction with these in school English and science (and games in a home context), I explore how they seem to promote image over writing. More generally, I discuss what all of this means for literacy and how readers of school age interpret multimodal texts

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Unique citing works64
Citations per year3,37
Citation span2007 - 2026 (20)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 53

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