I remember in high school history classes that often, when presented with a chart of population expansion or a similar idea in the textbook, the teacher would instead play a YouTube video that showed the same idea with movement and color. That’s what I thought of while I read these selections—how multimodal digital publishing can…
1: The Complexity of the Digital Text
Something that particularly interested me about our readings is the unseen complexity involved in digital publishing. In particular, digital publishing does not simply refer to posting words and/or images to the Internet, but there is complex communication and social and cultural exchanges among even the most basic digitally published material. For example, we don’t typically…