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Modalities
Authors: Bubaris, Nikos
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In this chapter we discuss issues of information formatting in the process of creating multimedia content. The transformation of information into text, image and sound is not semantically neutral and taken for granted; on the contrary, it is an important dimension of the communicative dynamics of a multimedia application. In this light, the first part of the chapter first analyses the main conceptual tools of information formatting "resource", "mode", "modality" with reference to the consequent design practices around the communicative functions of representation, interaction and composition. The next section discusses the communicative possibilities and limitations of texts, images and sounds in the signification of multimedia content, in relation to the corresponding possibilities and limitations of the technical media used. This issue is further discussed by highlighting the organic relationship between multimodality and multimedia. In a multimedia application, the formatting of information as a distinct practice of signification lies both in the particular communicative dynamics of each modality/mode separately and in the techniques of their interrelationships. In this sense, the second part of the chapter discusses at length the interconnection of the intermodal and intramodal features of a multimedia application with respect to the following: a) the discourses that shape the ideological environment of the representation, b) the genres that shape the standards for the synthesis of modalities/modes, c) the styles that express the positions and roles of the communicating parties, and d) the materialities that influence the above, specifying and transforming them.
Linguistic Editors: Kioseoglou, Nerina
Graphic Editors: Tsakmaki, Eleni
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 30-01-2024
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/12328
Bibliographic Reference: Bubaris, N. (2024). Modalities [Chapter]. In Bubaris, N. 2024. Culture and multimedia [Monograph]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/12328
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Culture and multimedia
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions