Reflection

After taking this course and doing the final assessment, I felt that I have learned a lot about issues in publication and design. There were many new and useful things, which I got out from this subject provided by University of South Australia via Taylor’s Business School.

             According to Schirato and Yell (2000), social semiotics can be summed up simply as the study of how people make meaning, based upon their past experiences, background, education level and culture. 

            Furthermore I learned that, placing elements on different sides and level brings forth different meaning, as Kress & van Leeuwen (2006), states that placing elements on the left is information that are given or already known by the readers, and placing it on the right is new information, something the readers are not aware of or not yet known to them. 

            Thus from the above, you can see the elements that I have learned being applied in my post here and thru out the blog.

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Reference List:

Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T., (2006) “Chapter 6: The meaning of composition”, Reading images: the grammar of visual design, London, published by Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, England, pp. 175 – 214

Schirato, & Yell, (2000) “Communication as social practice” Communication and Culture: An Introduction, published by Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 43-63