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1. eLiterature, analisi critica, strumenti interpretativi, potenzialità e possibilità applicative

   This dissertation analyzes eLiterature in a multidisciplinary way, considering both the strictly literary aspect and correlated aspects such as the technological and educational ones.

   Fabio De Vivo - 22.10.2011 - 13:22

2. A New Media Reading Strategy

   This dissertation addresses the need for a strategy that will help readers new to new media texts interpret such texts. While scholars in multimodal and new media theory posit rubrics that offer ways to understand how designers use the materialities and media found in overtly designed, new media texts (see, e.g,, Wysocki, 2004a), these strategies do not account for how readers have to make meaning from those texts. In this dissertation, I discuss how these theories, such as Lev Manovich’s (2001) five principles for determining the new media potential of texts and Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen’s (2001) four strata of designing multimodal texts, are inadequate to the job of helping readers understand new media from a rhetorical perspective. I also explore how literary theory, specifically Wolfgang Iser’s (1978) description of acts of interpretation, can help audiences understand why readers are often unable to interpret the multiple, unexpected modes of communication used in new media texts.

   Cheryl Ball - 20.08.2013 - 10:52