The Evolution of Communication

Have you ever wondered how we’re going to properly navigate this new ocularcentric culture of ours, where the semiotic landscape is dominated by the visual? What is the future of language when it’s becoming so entwined with such plural literacies?

Expert of new literacies and mobile learning.

Expert of new literacies and mobile learning.

Well, Jessica Frawley, a researcher in the UTS Centre for Human Centred Technology and Design (HCTD) and a PhD candidate in the UTS School of Information Technology, recently gave a lecture as part of the UTSpeaks series “Shapeshifters” and in it she addresses our changing culture, including the ecology of devices within we generally now practice.

And in that, she mentioned me.

Me!

Oh, and one of my stories too.

Want to know how she relates one to the other? Then simply watch her lecture here, which kicks off at exactly 22.09, and listen out between the 31 minute and 34 minute mark, when Jessica talks about my story The Voice:

If you’d like to read the story she talks about, just click here:

mStories

I hope you enjoy it – kinda, he he!

Zena Shapter

Zena Shapter writes from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thundercloud, reaching across age and genre into the heart of storytelling. A multi-award-winning author of speculative and contemporary fiction, she teaches writing at festivals, libraries and schools, judges various literary awards, mentors and edits other writers, and encourages everyone to value the importance of creativity. She loves movies, frogs, chocolate, and potatoes, though not at the same time!

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