"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 a ubiquitous and influential element of contemporary communication culture. His analysis considers the social and intellectual implications of the genre, focusing on the dynamic relationships between the aural, visual and physical dimensions of PowerPoint presentations, as well as the diverse institutional contexts in which these presentations take place. Ultimately, Knoblauch argues that the parameters of the PowerPoint genre frames the ways in which information is presented, validated and absorbed, with ambiguous consequences for the acquisition and transmission of knowledge. This original and timely book is relevant to scholars of communications, sociology and education"--
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' The book is intended for an academic audience with an interest in understanding how knowledge is created via powerpoint. Knoblauch's book is an extensive and in-depth investigation into why powerpoint has become the de facto presentation style.... This book is a first step to fully understanding a means of communication that is exploding in use.' Kimberly Fairchild Kimberly Fairchild, PsycCRITIQUES 'On the whole, this is a significant work which examines the globally important phenomenon of PowerPoint - and powerpoint - in a context that is highly meaningful for sociological theory The study is not just about the software and related performances but also about the contemporary development of information and knowledge society, which has been a major social and cultural change across the globe. The analysis is also pertinent to the classic questions concerning human action that have captivated the greatest sociological thinkers the overall quality and significance make it a valuable piece of sociological scholarship.' Stanisaw Krawczyk, State of Affairs
Papildus informācija
This book explores the dynamics and limitations of PowerPoint as a means of communication.
Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction:
1. 'PowerPoint' and powerpoint;
2. Communication culture;
3. Information and knowledge society;
4. Structure
of the book; Part II. On the History of PowerPoint:
5. The archaeology of
PowerPoint;
6. The double invention of PowerPoint;
7. Presentation as digital
document and presentation as event;
8. PowerPoint is evil - discourse and
studies on PowerPoint;
9. Tufte and the public discourse on PowerPoint;
10.
The inconclusiveness of studies on PowerPoint;
11. Presentation as event and
genre; Part III. Communicative Action, Culture, and the Analysis of
Communicative Genres:
12. Communicative actions and genres;
13. The three
levels of genre analysis and communication culture; Part IV. The Internal
Level: Slides, Speech, and Synchronization:
14. Rhetoric of visual
presentation;
15. Slides, text, and speech;
16. Multimodality and the
synchronization of speech slides;
17. Speech and talk;
18. Linguistic deixis,
paralleling, and communicative things;
19. Lists and seriality;
20.
Macrostructures; Part V. The Intermediate Level: Pointing, the Body
Formation, and the Triadic Structure of PowerPoint Presentations:
21.
Pointing, gesture, and speech;
22. Pointing, speech, and the objectification
of meaning;
23. Body formation and the triadic structure of the presentation;
24. Technology, failures and footing; Part VI. The External Level: Settings,
Meetings, and the Ubiquity of PowerPoint:
25. Objects, settings, and spaces;
26. The temporal order of presentations and the meeting;
27. The
multiplication and the ubiquity of PowerPoint presentation; Part VII.
Conclusion: the Ubiquity of PowerPoint and the Communicative Culture of
Knowledge Society:
28. The invention and ubiquity of PowerPoint
presentations;
29. Contextualization and mediatization;
30. Communicative
things and the subjectification of knowledge;
31. PowerPoint presentation in
the communicative culture of knowledge society; Part VIII. Appendices:
Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; References; Index.
Hubert Knoblauch is a professor of sociology at the Technical University of Berlin.
