"Unflattening" Our Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Writing

Our first column for Volume 60 of JAAL focuses on the messages of expanded ways of seeing in knowledge construction that are contained in the pages of Unflattening, a comic book originally written by Nick Sousanis as his doctoral dissertation. Unflattening seeks to literally unflatten conceptions of...

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Published in:Journal of adolescent & adult literacy 2016-07, Vol.60 (1), p.103-105
Main Authors: Vasudevan, Lalitha, Rodriguez Kerr, Kristine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
3-Early adolescence
4-Adolescence
5-College/university students
6-Adult
Comic books
Digital/media literacies
Digital/media literacies, Genres
Digital/media literacies, Specific media (hypertext, Internet, film, music, etc.)
Digital/media literacies, Visual literacy
etc.
Genres
Internet
Knowledge
Meaning
Modes
Multimodality
music
New literacies
Professional Resources
Reading-writing relationship
Sousanis , Nick
Specific media (hypertext
Visual literacy
Writing
Writing, Modes
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Summary:Our first column for Volume 60 of JAAL focuses on the messages of expanded ways of seeing in knowledge construction that are contained in the pages of Unflattening, a comic book originally written by Nick Sousanis as his doctoral dissertation. Unflattening seeks to literally unflatten conceptions of meaning, reading, and writing through an active embrace of multimodality in its integration of images, design, and various genres of written text.
ISSN:1081-3004
1936-2706
DOI:10.1002/jaal.562