Kress Reading

I also had trouble really getting into this reading, but since I have read some of Reading Images by Kress & Van Lewen (Spelled that wrong!), so some of it made sense to me. The part about affordances, though, reminded me of a reading from my workplace comm class from a book called The Myth of the Paperless Office. In that reading, it talked about the affordances of paper and why those affordances make paper something that people like and will continue to use despite having the internet. I felt like Kress was kind of taking the other side of this idea by discussing the affordances of new media.

I felt like I couldn't post about this reading until after we had discussed it in class. Having the class discussions about some of these really dense things definitely makes it easier to understand what's going on!