The goldberg variations I: Assessing the academic quality of multidimensional linear texts and their re-emergence in multimedia publications
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Discourse and Communication, 2010, 4 (4), pp. 361 - 378
- Issue Date:
- 2010-11-01
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After an introduction on the recent history of academic publishing in non-linear media, the article compares two versions of an academic publication by the American sociologist David Theo Goldberg. The two versions deal with the same subject matter, but one is a traditional scholarly article, the other published in an online journal in a non-linear format. While the academic article constructs a tight, linear argument, subordinating a range of themes to a single key theme, the non-linear text gives all themes equal weight, accommodates a greater amount of evidence and documentation, and has more scope for multimodality. © The Author(s) 2010.
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