Kress 35-83

I'll have to agree that this reading was arduous and took me quite some time to actually piece together what Kress was trying to get across. I also think that I'll need to re-read it to absorb more of what Kress is saying. His communication is uuber verbose and tiring to a point. One of the only things that jumped out at me while I was trying to understand was the chapter on literacy, starting on page 61. He makes the statement about the mode of writing and image and how they appear together and how they are supposed to be read together. This made me think about what Ardi said in class about how they are coming out with the different kinds of 'paper' that change what is written when they are touched. This also brought up conversation about the Daily Prophet [Harry Potter] that has pictures that move. As much as writing and image compete as art forms, they are both art forms and when paired they usually complement each other. In my Intro to Journalism class we discussed how the TV/Internet has decreased the sale of paper newspapers and thus the newspapers have adapted to the modernization of communication. So will the newspaper continue to adapt as more and more changes [and advances] occur? Honestly I think that the death of the newspaper will be slow, but it will eventually die as print and rather live on-line.