Visual Culture isn't Just Visual: Multiliteracy, Multimodality and Meaning

The Search for Authentic Practice Across the Disciplinary Divide

“…These influences are often more powerful than the occasional art education experience, which traditionally presumes that cultures are intact and identifiable; today's cultural artifacts, however, are now often outsourced or even pirated. Understanding images and objects is especially important in our contemporary world of global sources of information, visual culture of surveillances (Sweeney 2006), hyperaesthetics (Taylor 2002), and daily interaction with computer data, hypertext, images and sound (Duncum 2004). Such understanding can facilitate not only more informed choices, but can also assist us to "locate" ourselves within the global cultural arena.…”

Teorías de género y cine. Un aporte a los estudios de la representación

“…En un mismo sentido, se afirma que los sentidos y significados que las imágenes producen no son estables ni corresponden siempre a lo perceptible de ellas. Siguiendo las premisas de la Teoría Post-estructuralista, las interpretaciones que sugieren son disímiles de acuerdo al contexto en el cual son leídas y, por esta razón, son concebibles como "co-creadoras, ya que diferentes grupos interpretan las imágenes según sus propias tradiciones culturales y necesidades contemporáneas" (Duncum, 2004).…”

Reverse Transfer: Using Social Media to Teach Academic Paper Principles

“…The rise of new media outreach and newly normalized communication practices dovetail with and expand upon current multiliteracy pedagogies Kalantzis, 2000, 2009;Unsworth, 2001;Duncum, 2004;Selber, 2004;Anstey and Bull, 2006). Within this scholarship, literacy is not seen as singularly embedded within written language; in fact, it takes on a flexible, often multimodal persona that comes is seen through art, music, etc.…”