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This book examines the relationships between online visual
interfaces and language use in educational contexts and the
features that underpin them to explore the complex nature of online
communication and its implications for educational practice.
Adopting a case study approach featuring a global range of
examples, the volume uniquely focuses on multimodal intercultural
interactions, with a particular interest in videoconferencing, to
look at how they project and reflect particular cultural values and
tendencies concerning language use and how they elucidate the
complex cultural identifications and affiliations inherent in
intercultural encounters. The book employs a diverse range of
theoretical and research frameworks to highlight the dynamic
connections between digital technology, social life, and language
use, and the ways in which they can inform language education,
making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in applied
linguistics, communication studies, media studies, information
studies, and education.
This book examines the relationships between online visual
interfaces and language use in educational contexts and the
features that underpin them to explore the complex nature of online
communication and its implications for educational practice.
Adopting a case study approach featuring a global range of
examples, the volume uniquely focuses on multimodal intercultural
interactions, with a particular interest in videoconferencing, to
look at how they project and reflect particular cultural values and
tendencies concerning language use and how they elucidate the
complex cultural identifications and affiliations inherent in
intercultural encounters. The book employs a diverse range of
theoretical and research frameworks to highlight the dynamic
connections between digital technology, social life, and language
use, and the ways in which they can inform language education,
making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in applied
linguistics, communication studies, media studies, information
studies, and education.
From the origins of writing to today's computer-mediated
communication, material technologies shape how we read and write,
how we construe and share knowledge, and ultimately how we
understand ourselves in relation to the world. However,
communication technologies are themselves designed in particular
social and cultural contexts and their use is adapted in creative
ways by individuals. In this book, Richard Kern explores how
technology matters to language and the ways in which we use it.
Kern reveals how material, social and individual resources interact
in the design of textual meaning, and how that interaction plays
out across contexts of communication, different situations of
technological mediation, and different moments in time. Showing how
people have adapted visual forms to various media as well as to
social needs, this study culminates in five fundamental principles
to guide language and literacy education in a period of rapid
technological and social change.
This important new book provides a critical collection of recent research on on-line communication for second language learning, including uses of electronic mail, real-time writing, and the World Wide Web. Chapters analyze the theories underlying computer assisted learning, explore the contexts that affect network-based teaching, and examine the linguistic nature of computer-mediated interaction in both textual and multimedia environments. Each chapter has been specially written for this collection by an individual who has done extensive research on the topic explored. The result is a highly readable but in-depth analysis of the way that on-line communication is reshaping language teaching.
From the origins of writing to today's computer-mediated
communication, material technologies shape how we read and write,
how we construe and share knowledge, and ultimately how we
understand ourselves in relation to the world. However,
communication technologies are themselves designed in particular
social and cultural contexts and their use is adapted in creative
ways by individuals. In this book, Richard Kern explores how
technology matters to language and the ways in which we use it.
Kern reveals how material, social and individual resources interact
in the design of textual meaning, and how that interaction plays
out across contexts of communication, different situations of
technological mediation, and different moments in time. Showing how
people have adapted visual forms to various media as well as to
social needs, this study culminates in five fundamental principles
to guide language and literacy education in a period of rapid
technological and social change.
Simply sexy: Richard Kern's gloriously natural girls Richard Kern
likes real women: unpretentious, unadorned, and definitely
undressed. Those who love Kern know each book is an invitation to
join him in his privileged world where natural young women share
their most intimate moments. Richard has never lost his boyish
curiosity with girls and their secrets, so instead of posing them
in sterile sets he follows them through the house?or rather his New
York apartment?from backyard to kitchen to bathroom to bedroom,
capturing every sexy and embarrassing moment. Action is his most
revealing book yet. For 280 pages we careen through the life of
Kern, accompanied by dozens of energetic, fun-loving,
clothes-dropping exhibitionists. ?Young women want to show the
world they?re not like their man-hating women's lib mothers, ? a
Kern model once told me, and these girls certainly get the point
across. To further assist the young ladies in their rebellion, the
book includes an hour-long DVD of original Kern film with an
exclusive musical score by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Way to
stick it to the Mom, ladies! And thank you, Richard, you lucky dog.
- Dian Hanson The artist: Richard Kern was born in North Carolina
in 1954 and has lived and worked in New York City since 1979. In
the ?80s, he produced a series of short films that now are
recognized as the central works of the movement known as the Cinema
of Transgression. In the ?90s he switched to still photography full
time and occasionally directed music videos for bands including
Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson. Kern has published nine books and
is a regular contributor to a variety of international
publications.
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