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‘The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English’

. Visual Communication, 1 (2): 171-195 (2002)

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In the move from page to screen a range of representational modes including image, movement, gesture, and voice are available as meaning-making resources. This article focuses on the reshaping of the entity ‘character’ in the transformation of the novel Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, 1937 to CD-ROM 1996. Through detailed analysis the article demonstrates that the shift from written page to multimodal screen entails a shift in the construction of the entity ‘character’. It is also suggested that students’ interaction with the resources of the CD-ROM as a visual text demand that ‘reading’ and the process of learning within school English be thought of as more than a linguistic accomplishment.

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In this reading Jewitt comments on the use of image and writing in a CD-ROM version of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. She also discusses the inherent tension in schools as they promote new technology but test students through traditional technology.

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