Re: _Kairos_ interview with Scott McCloud

Ricardo,

Acho que isto te interessará (ainda não li).
Foi um grande prazer conhece-lo!!

Marconi.

2009/9/10 Deborah Taylor-Pearce <[email protected]>:
> Cafe,
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> This should intrigue many of you -- not just the interview itself
> (which even includes a comparison-contrast of comics and ID!), but
> also its unusual graphical presentation.
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> Scot Hanson interviews Scott McCloud
> in _Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy_
> Issue 14.1 (Fall 2009)
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> http://bit.ly/aNuUk
> or
> http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/14.1/interviews/hanson/index.html#third
>
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> The editors of _Kairos_ advertised the interview on one of my
> discussion lists as "Presented in comics form." I'm not sure I would
> categorize it as such.... Certainly, I wouldn't look at the Web page
> and think, "oh, cool, a comic" ... but then, I'm not really an
> aficionado of comics, either. Still, the _Kairos_ piece looks to me
> more like a flow chart than a comic (more analytical than story-like).
>
> I actually found the graphic format used for the interview
> distracting. It breaks up the "natural" flow of conversation, making
> it harder for me to absorb McCloud's answers. I.e., I find myself
> focusing on the boxed chunks of speech and their asymmetrical layout
> on the screen/page, rather than actually *listening* to what McCloud
> has to say. (Big surprise! ;-)
>
> OTOH, I do like the Wordle summary of the interview at the top of
> the page. Again, though, this may have more to do with familiarity and
> comfort zones than anything else. (I'm actually planning to add
> Wordles throughout a website I'm updating, and seeing one used here in
> similar fashion confirmed me in this.)
>
> For some reason, I find Wordles to be very engaging pictures ... but I
> find fixed, boundaried boxes of chunked text arranged in simple
> flow-chart fashion unappealing.
>
> Deborah
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-- 
José Marconi Bezerra de Souza
Visiting lecturer of Paraná Federal University
PhD - Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, The University
of Reading (UK)
Manager of Applied Research Track (Society of Technical Communication
Conference 2009, Atlanta, USA)

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