Hmmm...Kress...Above is a self portrait of me reading Kress'Modality, Multimedia and Genre. It is an illustration of how i felt while reading it, while this blog is an actual recount of my reading it. I was, probably still am, a little lost, but after reading Dr Chandler's Blog i have a little better understanding. So in effect, I realize that i often use images as a means to entertain my reader, in fact much of my blogging is directed at entertaining.
So, for entertainment calue (and a cheap plug) i'm going to use the Serenity Movie site as one of my examples. In this site there is very little in the way of literature, for good reason...it is a site geared toward visual and interactive entertainment. The information aspect comes secondary. Although, if you go to the notes section there are some interesting tidbits. Aside from what the fact that the author of the site wants you to know that the movie comes out September 30th (and is a really good movie so you should go see it), it offers games, videos and images that give you an idea of what the movie is about. Very visual, mucho eyecandy! Fun, fun, fun!
A little less on the interactivity side, you have the VIctoria's Secret Website (this is one of my favorite sites because its my favorite store). This site is geared not so much at informing you about the product, but offering a means by which to purchase it. There are pictures, lots of them, but there are brief descriptions as to what materials the product is made from, prices etc. Very little in the way of interactive and entertaining. Amazon.com offers a little more interactivity because they offer forums with which you can communicate your opinions on the products, and they also offer areas where you can sell your own prodcuts. This is more of a community. The movie site also offers a community atmosphere as well if you enter the forum section of that site.
On the extereme flip-side you have good ol' Wikipedia.com which is mostly information, or an online encyclodedia. THis also uses images, but the images and visuals are not the focus of the site. The purpose of this site is strictly informative.
I may be way off base with this blog entry...but i tried :(
posted by Soo @ 6:31 AM
2 Comments:
yea...i usually have a better grasp on things after the lecture as well, but i was sick last week and wasn't there for it :( now i wish i was
I hope the summary of Kress in my blog helped relieve some of the stress represented in the picture.
You seem to have gotten the idea.
Kress is defining genre in terms of *relationships* structured by the text, rather than in terms of form. I think I missed the relationship of the texts in your analysis to the "larger culture" (ie discourse) or did you write it and I just didn't get it? So what makes the site you chose related is that they promote or sell(definitely a relationships feature)? I think that is really interesting because it places a movie site in the same general category as amazon. (Not sure how wikipedia fits into all this -- )
Also as Kress points out, the "sub-genre" you have identified actually contains elements which make the texts your "group" different from one another.
So what genre is this comment?
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