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.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2023-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202332362
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (2)

  1. Butler (2026)
    Top Stories and Deaf News: Accessible Information and Communication in …
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Amicucci et al. (2025)
    From “Text-heavy slides” to “That image did a lot of the work”: Five faculty tr…
    Computers and Composition

Cites in this index (6)

  1. Butler (2018)
    Integral Captions and Subtitles: Designing a Space for Embodied Rhetorics and V…
    Rhetoric Review
  2. Hocks et al. (2017)
    Composing for Sound: Sonic Rhetoric as Resonance
    Computers and Composition
  3. VanKooten (2016)
    “The video was what did it for me”: Developing Meta-Awareness about Composition…
    College English
  4. Ahern (2013)
    Tuning the Sonic Playing Field: Teaching Ways of Knowing Sound in First Year Writing
    Computers and Composition
  5. Smagorinsky (2008)
    The Method Section as Conceptual Epicenter in Constructing Social Science Resea…
    Written Communication
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  1. Shipka (2006)
    Sound engineering: Toward a theory of multimodal soundness
    Computers and Composition
Also cites 2 works outside this index ↓
  1. (2012)
    Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies
    The Senses and Society  ↗
  2. (2015)
    Video Captions Benefit Everyone
    Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences  ↗
CrossRef global citation count: 2 View in citation network →

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