Multimodal literacy is about understanding the different ways of knowledge representations and meaning-making.
Multimodal literacy It focuses on the design of discourse by investigating the contributions of specific semiotic resources (language, gesture, images) co-deployed across various modalities (visual, aural, somatic).
VISUAL - COLORS, PERSPECTIVE
AURAL - MUSIC, SOUND EFFECTS
GESTURAL - BODY, KINESICS, FEELING/AFFECT
SPATIAL - LAYOUT, ARCHITECTURE
LIGNUISTIC - DELIVERY, VOCAB, LOGOS
Authorship - All messages are ‘constructed.’
Format - Media messages are constructed using a creative language with its own rules
Audience - Different people experience the same media message differently.
Content - Media have embedded values and points of view
Purpose - Most media messages are organized to gain profit and/or power.