The prevalence of multimedia texts afforded by digital media stresses the need for a literacy to produce and access information in its myriad forms.

How do we decode this image? How do we create coherence in multimodalities?

Eyes Without a Face: Research, Annotation and Sharing in a Multimodal Literacy Frame

Darren Chase Darren.Chase@stonybrook.edu

Eyes Without a Face: Research, Annotation and Sharing in a Multimodal Literacy Frame

Darren Chase | Darren.Chase@stonybrook.edu

What is Multimodal Literacy?Multimodal literacy explores the design of discourse deployed across various modalities (visual, aural, somatic) as well as their interaction and integration in constructing coherence.

The prevalence of multimedia texts afforded by digital media stresses the need for a literacy to produce and access information in its myriad forms.

Effective digital research and scholarship requires tools for annotating, sharing and referencing myriad objects and content on the web and within digital collections.

The Scholarly PrimitivesBasic functions common to scholarly activity across disciplines, over time, and independent of theoretical orientation: Discovering, Annotating, Comparing, Referring, Sampling, Illustrating, Representing

Eyes Without A Face (1961)

Vialogues provides a space for users to hold meaningful and dynamic time-stamped discussions about videos.

Hypothes.is leverages annotation to enable sentence-level critique or note-taking on top of digital content. Soundcloud is a social sound

platform where members discover, create, share and annotate sounds.