May 26, 2005
Ekphrastic Academia:
Images, Sounds and Motions in Academic Discourse
"...Would the use of a performative, ekphrastic academe better allow us to place theory into our lives? And do the new technologies of multimedia open up to ekphrasis more than our current text-based form of academic scholarship?... In this essay, I want to explore the potential ekphrastic implications multimedia has for academia. I will do so, by first looking at the potential rhetorical aspects of the components of multimedia; images, sounds, motions, and text. I will then discuss the performative and rhetorical implications found in the interactivity and variability made possible in multimedia documents. Finally, I will delineate the ekphrastic effects that I see multimedia could have on academia." From Ekphrastic Academia: Images, Sounds and Motions in Academic Discourse by Drew Davidson [moontide, his blog]
Posted by jo at May 26, 2005 07:16 AM
