Challenges of Multimedia Self-Presentation: Taking, and Mistaking, the Show on the Road  

Oleh:

Nelson, Mark Evan ; Hull, Glynda A. ; Roche-Smith, Jeeva

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Written Communication ( sebagian Full Text) vol. 25 no. 4 (Oct. 2008), page 415-440.
Topik: writing with new media; new literacies; multimodality; digital storytelling; youth media and identity; multimodal text analysis
Fulltext: 415.pdf (204.28KB)

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One privilege enjoyed by new-media authors is the opportunity to realize representations of Self that are rich textual worlds in themselves and also to engage the wider world, with a voice, a smile, imagery, and sound. Still, closer investigation of multimedia composition practices reveals levels of complexity with which the verbal virtuoso is unconcerned. This article argues that while technology-afforded multimedia tools make it comparatively easy to author a vivid text, it is a multiplicatively more complicated matter to vividly realize and publicize an authorial intention. Based on analysis of the digital story creation process of a youth named “Steven,” the authors attempt to demonstrate the operation of two forces upon which the successful multimodal realization of the author’s intention may hinge: “fixity” and “fluidity.” The authors show how, within the process of digital self-representation, these forces can intersect to influence multimodal meaning making, and an author’s life, in consequential ways.

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