Multimodality and media archaeology: Complementary optics for looking at digital stuff?
This article brings current core concerns of multimodality into dialogue with approaches identified with media archaeology. I begin by considering the development of multimodality in relation to the emphasis that media archaeologists place on non-linear and parallel histories, the relativity of 'new...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 482 - 501 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2021
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