Text, image, code, comment: Writing in Flash

Computers and Composition

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 412-429

  Sorapure, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Code; Code comment; Flash; New media; Software; Visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751196609     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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