MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS PORTFOLIO
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dalla Hobbs is a Junior at Washington State University, studying Digital Technology & Culture. In his work, he has a focus on how digital media and information have a relationship with culture. You can see this work in his two Multimodal Analyses, which are about the history of technology in the form of postal services and radio. In the two Multimodal Analysis, you can see how these pieces of technology develope over time and how their global effects change around the world. He has a strong interest in technology and its effect around the world. Also, how technology can change its process and meaning in different areas of the world.
OVERVIEW
These multimodal analyses focus on the history of early communication in the world. Ranging from the ideas of non-digital technology to completely digital communication. We have so many examples that show the change from primitive to very advanced forms of communication They were created to show how there are many factors in history that have changed the forms of communication. Demonstrating and talking about the advancements in technology and how it has created a new way of life. This change in technology has been in the form of visual and audible communication. The processes for communication have used all resources and continue in their advancement to newer and stronger methods of communication. These analyses work to describe the relationships between technology, communication, and history. Providing examples that show the history and development of these relationships. The analysis will provide the readers with information that helps them understand how technology has influenced communication to be what it is today. We have seen so many forms of communication and how they have changed through time with cave paintings, tablets, drumbeats, letters, stars, telegraph, codes, radio waves, phones, text and many more. The two analysis discusses a few of the earlier forms of communication to help provide an introduction to our history and change of communication.
“You’ve Got Mail” is a multimodal analysis discussing the technology and advancement of the Postal Services around the world. It is created on the medium of a website that provides links and images of different letter styles throughout history. It is written in the form of “letters” to describe the history it has created.
The different letters address a variety of relationships that connect the methods of postal services to the growing methods of communication. As well as showing the different styles of writing and how it has changed through history with different material or social standards. Providing a history of how letter writing was able to pave the way for one of the biggest forms of communication in the world. It was the first major form of technology around the world and it created many new methods of technology to help it become successful. It discusses the full history of the postal service with a main focus on the United States Postal Services. The history will show how new forms and other business with new methods came about. The “letters” provide an introduction for the change in letter writing and packages to a more digital form of communication.
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Keywords: mail, letters, delivery, USPS, communication
“Radio Waves” is a multimodal analysis in the medium of the website. The media is a combination of text, video, and sound. It was created to imamate a radio broadcast that also had the visual radio waves. The sound was taken from the written text on the page and then voiced over to create a certain style. The paragraphs were broken into different “radio broadcast” to create the needed them of a radio broadcast. It was all put together to talk about the history and tie in the new digital idea of radio and streaming.
Each “broadcast” had a different focus on the topic of radio waves. There was a stronger focus on early history and how it was created. The earliest forms of technology and the inventor that helped make it what it is today. The radio waves were very important to history because it changed how we communicate on a major scale. These major changes are discussed in the “broadcast” to tell the readers the important dates and why these changes were made. Discussing how old methods related to new methods creating interactions with many different technologies in our history. Listeners will hear the history and ideas for what a future holds from the many forms of technological communication we have had since the start.
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Keywords: radio, broadcast, delivery, history, communication