Kress Response

I agree with many of the ideas Kress presents in this article. To me Images and Text go hand in hand, while they can most certainly exist on their own, often times photos are obscure without the aid of text and the same can also be said for text. I do not think that one can simply take the place of the other though. To me it seemed that the children's drawings depicted more of what the teacher asked their students to describe. It is interesting how communication evolves along with age. In children it always seems that they rely on pictures more, whether in reading or writing.

It seems that affordances go hand in hand with technology and in my opinion aid in most textual formats. For example, in our blogs (or at least in mine) I always try and add an image as a visual aid to accompany my blog posts. To me text alone or Images alone are not enough. Especially with the ease of technology in our generation , digitial media such as video and images play a vital role in almost any body of work that utilizes technology. When a CEO is doing a presentation for board members to show company progress, the presentation will almost certainly not contain only text or only images, but the combination of both. Just as Kress says images and affordances have started to play a major role in text and communication since previous generations and will most likely continue to evolve.