awaywithwords: On the possibilities in unavailable designs

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Department

Department of Humanities

Abstract

Constraints in our use of communication materials are often socially and historically produced; to ask after the constraints as we teach or compose can help us understand how material choices in producing communications articulate to social practices we may not otherwise wish to reproduce. In this writing, I consider the constraints Gunther Kress often applied to "word" and "image," questioning their temporal and spatial structures.

Publication Title

Computers and Composition

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