Candace's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » writing http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 decline of text? http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:02:00 +0000 Candace Nolan-Grant http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/ Kress may be correct in saying that changes in both the medium and mode of writing are ongoing. But the platform I’m typing into at the moment is evidence that writing itself isn’t as tied to the book as Kress suggests.

As for text, the internet is still largely structured by it as far as discreet parcels of information are concerned. If I want to find an image, video or sound clip, I still have to type in my text, and my success is based on the words that I choose to enter…

]]> http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-text/feed/ 2 decline of writing? http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-writing-of-text/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-writing-of-text/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:52:55 +0000 Candace Nolan-Grant http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/?p=86 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/candacen/2013/01/29/decline-of-writing-of-text/feed/ 0