Meanings made in students’ multimodal digital stories A multimodal text analysis of students´ representations

The young generation are both consumers and producers of digital multimodal texts and can thus be seen as cocreators of the culture and the contexts that they are part of. Learning more about how students create multimodal texts and what students’ texts are about can extend the understanding of cont...

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Published inDesigns for Learning Vol. 12; no. 1
Main Authors Dahlström, Helene, Damber, Ulla
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 2020
Subjects
digital resources
meaning-making
multiliteracies
multimodal design
popular culture
students’ text
values
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Summary:The young generation are both consumers and producers of digital multimodal texts and can thus be seen as cocreators of the culture and the contexts that they are part of. Learning more about how students create multimodal texts and what students’ texts are about can extend the understanding of contemporary meaning making. This study examines 23 Swedish fifth-grade students’ multimodal digital stories in a school context. The aim of this research was to understand the meaning that the students made in their digital narratives and to describe how they made that meaning. This study’s multimodal textual analysis is based on the multiliteracies perspective. The results indicate that all of the students, to varying degrees, took advantage of the available digital and modal resources. Some students chose writing as their sole mode, but others used all of the available resources. Furthermore, the results revealed that students’ popular culture experiences influenced many of their texts, which can indicate that popular culture texts are used as resources for making meaning about the world.
ISSN:1654-7608
DOI:10.16993/dfl.145