TY - CHAP
T1 - Multimodal mobile news
T2 - design and images in tablet-platform apps
AU - Knox, John S.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Tablets provide a canvas with unique characteristics, by which news institutions and their readers can, respectively, distribute and access news. This paper reports on a study into the multimodal construal of news on the front page/home page of 12 English-language news apps from Australia, the UK, and the USA. The apps studied appear to cluster into a relatively limited number of design choices according to their use of language, page composition, and visual metaphor on the home page. Images are used for a wide variety of news functions and in a variety of different designs, but are ubiquitous. The question of whether the home pages of these apps are image-centric is addressed. A definition of ‘image-centricity’ is proposed.
AB - Tablets provide a canvas with unique characteristics, by which news institutions and their readers can, respectively, distribute and access news. This paper reports on a study into the multimodal construal of news on the front page/home page of 12 English-language news apps from Australia, the UK, and the USA. The apps studied appear to cluster into a relatively limited number of design choices according to their use of language, page composition, and visual metaphor on the home page. Images are used for a wide variety of news functions and in a variety of different designs, but are ubiquitous. The question of whether the home pages of these apps are image-centric is addressed. A definition of ‘image-centricity’ is proposed.
UR - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429487965
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138596085
T3 - Routledge studies in multimodality
SP - 233
EP - 252
BT - Shifts towards image-centricity in contemporary multimodal practices
A2 - Stöckl, Hartmut
A2 - Caple, Helen
A2 - Pflaeging, Jana
PB - Routledge
CY - New York ; Oxford
ER -