College Composition and Communication Feb 2023

Audience Awareness and Access: The Design of Sound and Captions as Valuable Composition Practices

Janine Butler ; Stacy Bick

Abstract

To demonstrate the value of access and attending to audiences’ experiences, this article shares our analysis of our interviews with eleven students who created videos with sound and captions. We build on our analysis to present a modified set of criteria for assessing how video composers demonstrate awareness of their audiences’ needs and preferences when designing access.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2023-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202332362
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