Affecting modalities: configuring meaning in cyberspace

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/29375 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/29375 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/29375 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/31/06 2013-06-21 16:45:56 2019-01-23 09:55:33 2013-06-21 16:45:56 thesis show 0 Trim Valerie Caldas-Coulthard Carmen Rosa Davis Tom R. ftp://ubira.bham.ac.uk/eTheses/3106_Trim/ University of Birmingham Affecting modalities: configuring meaning in cyberspace unpub NX 10col_artl The power of the Internet has produced a rich environment for the creation of new art forms. These artefacts, which can employ complex graphics, animation, music, written and spoken text and user-interactivity, are extremely fluid and variable. Encountering them requires a new and specifically multimedia literacy. This thesis examines in detail four online texts: Faith, Hometown, The Shower, and Blue Han, in order to investigate the possibility of such a literacy. Both Faith and Hometown are subjected to an extended visual, aural, and textual analysis, using theoretical approaches drawn from art history, narratology, literary theory and music. The Shower is analysed by reference to film theory, musical semiotics, the concept of openness and user interface design. Blue Han is used to test claims that digital artworks can function as paintings. This analytical work leads to an analysis and rethinking of some common assumptions made about the nature of interactivity, online collaboration and the mimetic possibilities of the digitalisation of texts. The thesis concludes that analysis of multimedia texts is indeed possible, but that their diversity requires a range of analytical approaches working together to uncover meaning. Such a variable combination of methods of reading, it is suggested, would provide the beginning of a new form of literacy. 2012-12 2012-02 graduation eng author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. public 152 University of Birmingham School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies, Department of English Literature d_ph na 2012-12 graduation