Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Interactivity
Intertextuality
De-centering (of power)
Accessibility
Multi-platform
Multimedia
What is intertextuality?
• The relationship between texts—especially
literary ones!
Heteroglossia
(many meanings within
one text) - Bakhtin
Postmodern Literature
Convergence Culture
Convergence Culture
ENTERTAINMENT Air
COMMUNICATION
Companionship
Visual Vocal
Video
Text
Interpersonal
Gaming
Physical/b
ody
language
Evolution of Texting: From Cuneiform to OMG
Acronym-ity
De-Centering the Text
Derrida – Abandon our conceptual system!
Replace with:
Multilinearity
Nodes
Links
Networks
* with some exceptions: ie. Third World, victims of oppressive regimes, the incarcerated
REVOLUTION/EVOLUTION
But it comes with some warnings…
1. Impersonal – everyone sitting around, privately
using; a “denaturing” of language
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<http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=8949&xtid=10177>.
Works Cited 2.0
Lanham, Richard A. "What's Next for Text?." Education, Communication and Information 1.1
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2011.
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