Texts now important to literacy studies now include: children's picture books, movies, web sites, blogs, you-tube videos, facebook and other sns, instagram, icons & visual elements of digital representations, magazines, newspapers , physical space itself, catalogs, architecture, graphic novels.
We then took a look at the Kean web site on academics, and you pointed out some of the ways you "saw" the site. Among other things, you identified issues associated with placement, color, justaposition, intertextuality, image content, the lack of coherence among the images, and symbolic associations to particular images. As I pointed out - your initial analyses drew from all three approaches discussed by Rose - and our discussion then became about learning and applying Rose's terminology to the analysis. My notes for Rose's chapter (and the basis for the rest of my part of the class discussion) are posted to the right as Notes for Rose.
During the second part of class Wyndesha and Svitlana presented on Farrell, Arzipe, and McAdam's essay.
For next week
Read: Livingstone, Alsop in Griffiin
Blog 8: What methodology do Farrell, Azipe & McAdam use in their study? What methods? How did their assumptions shape their research findings? Why is or isn't this a valid study?
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