Inside the rings of Saturn

Andrew Morrison's article on multimodal discourse in Computers and Composition, Inside the rings of Saturn, is an application of the concept of multimodality (Kress/van Leeuwen), situated in activity theory. An interesting read. Morrison deals with representations and media in relation to the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Keywords being social network software, blogs, literacy, performativity and web discourse. Escpecially interesting is the part on how Kress does not deal with interface design in his concept of the multimodal. Interfaces provide potentials for meaning-making, according to Andrew, and I agree. I will have to think more about this angle in my work.