Contemporary societies are greatly challenged by paradoxes in all facets of life. Digital communication encodes and produces meaning by making use of these contradictory relations. In this contribution, three digital paradoxes will be presented. The first paradox is grounded in the process of remediation in digital settings which mirrors a contradictory double logic. Digital culture, in fact, wants both to multiply its media and to eliminate all traces of mediation. The second antinomy has its origins in the new concept of linguistic entropy: a structured information disorder that is regulated by usability and multimodality. In accordance with the second paradox, the third one stems from further processes that are framing, a multimodal resource, and linking, a hypertextual resource.

Petroni, S. (2014). Pervasive Technologies and the Paradoxes of Multimodal Digital Communication. LEA, 3, 259-271 [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-15196].

Pervasive Technologies and the Paradoxes of Multimodal Digital Communication

PETRONI, SANDRA
2014-01-01

Abstract

Contemporary societies are greatly challenged by paradoxes in all facets of life. Digital communication encodes and produces meaning by making use of these contradictory relations. In this contribution, three digital paradoxes will be presented. The first paradox is grounded in the process of remediation in digital settings which mirrors a contradictory double logic. Digital culture, in fact, wants both to multiply its media and to eliminate all traces of mediation. The second antinomy has its origins in the new concept of linguistic entropy: a structured information disorder that is regulated by usability and multimodality. In accordance with the second paradox, the third one stems from further processes that are framing, a multimodal resource, and linking, a hypertextual resource.
2014
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Rilevanza internazionale
Articolo
Esperti anonimi
Settore L-LIN/12 - LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA INGLESE
English
entropy, linking processes, multimodality, paradox, (re-)mediation.
http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/15196/14146
Petroni, S. (2014). Pervasive Technologies and the Paradoxes of Multimodal Digital Communication. LEA, 3, 259-271 [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/LEA-1824-484x-15196].
Petroni, S
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