PowerPoint, communication, and the knowledge society /
"PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch offers the first complete analysis of the PowerPoint presentation as a form of communication. Knoblauch charts the diffusion of PowerPoint and explores its significance as...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Learning in doing.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the history of PowerPoint
- 3. Communicative action, culture, and the analysis of communicative genres
- 4. The internal level : slides, speech, and synchronization
- 5. The intermediate level: pointing, the body formation, and the triadic structure of Powerpoint presentations
- 6. The external level: settings, meetings, and the ubiquity of Powerpoint
- 7. Conclusion: the ubiquity of Powerpoint and the communicative culture of the knowledge society.
