Communication Genres and the Mediatic Turn
Norm Friesen,
Ipseity,
Jul 03, 2006
I confess, my first reaction when I read the abstract of a new paper by Norm Friesen is usually, "oh, neat." So it is with this draft, in which he argues that it is increasingly important to employ mediatic terms - such as culture, genre, audience, or convention - when characterizing learning resources. I think he makes his case, but I'm not sure that his use of Altman's account of epistolarity is the way to go; I would have preferred to use more common and useful terms such as 'bridging', 'confessional' or 'reciprocal' forms of communication. Nonetheless, I agree that we need to employ a wider range of genres for educational resources, a range beyond cognitive or technological terminology.
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