Reading as Mediated and Mediating Action: Composing Meaning for Literature Through Multimedia Interpretive Texts

Researchers are increasingly attentive to the need for broader conceptions of literacy. Expanded notions of what constitutes a text have led to the recognition of nonverbal acts of composing as having potential for both the development of new ideas during composing and the representation and further mediation of ideas through the production of and reflection on finished texts. Furthermore, studies in both intertextuality and intercontexuality...