Multi-modal literacy supports the ability to create meaning through the combination of different modes including written, spoken, visual, audial, spatial, and gestural means. Each mode provides a ...

Since we are ceaselessly consuming tons of photographs in our everyday lives, it is now more important than ever to ask ourselves how they reflect, communicate, and shape cultural meaning. Reading, ...

Even if visual messages can be adapted to people's natural cognitive abilities 11, and even if conventionalization of the visual communication code is less strongly developed relative to language, the ...

Yes, it has pictures. Yes, it is in the format of what you might call a “comic book—“ or wait, a “graphic novel.” Many students read graphic novels in their Literature or Language Composition classes.

Our visuality, “how we see; how we are able, allowed, or made to see” (Foster, 1988, p. ix), is the barometer of our imagination. What we envision as possible, probable or preferable futures (Amara, ...