Technical Communication Quarterly Jun 2009

Using Actor Network Theory to Trace and Improve Multimodal Communication Design

Liza Potts Dominion University College

Abstract

During the aftermath of recent disasters (both natural and human made), people have communicated by cobbling together available social software resources—relying on the capabilities of Internet tools such as blogs, news sites, and Flickr. Examining the use of social software taking place after the London bombings of July 7, 2005, I propose a method by which we can study users' literate appropriations to shape the development of more accommodating communication systems.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2009-06-09
DOI
10.1080/10572250902941812
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality race and writing

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