As writers and composition instructors, we struggle to keep up with the influx of new tools and composing spaces, from Twitter and WordPress to tablets and smartphones. Though the digital age might have us believe we live in a unique era, we have always been multimodal, forced to choose between traditional alphabetic writing and other modes of communication, such as speaking, listening, and image making. Or at least, that’s what Jason Palmeri argues in his engaging new book, Remixing Composition, released last spring by Southern Illinois Press.
Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy by Jason Palmeri
Episode 4 features Jason Palmeri discussing digital and multimodal composing, the challenges of incorporating multimodality into our curricula, and the importance of interdisciplinarity.
To read a PDF of the full transcript, please download it here: Transcript for Episode 4.
The music sampled in this podcast is “One Word Extinguisher” by Prefuse 73.
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