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I compared the websites for Walmart, Kmart, and Target.

While all three websites have the same purpose, they are all layed out a liitle differently. 

Each text has a similar author: a retail chain, a similar purpose: streamlining the shopping process, genre: shopping website, and context: each provides a superstore style shopping experience. 

Each website puts emphasis on the many different types of products they sell. For Kmart.com, these options are posistioned across the top under the colored (branded) heading. For Walmart, you have to select a drop down box, to access the categories. For Target, the catagories are listed down the right side, much like the Walmart site, however, Target cuts out the need for an unneccessary click. 

Each website uses contrast to display the colors associated with the retailer, and to clearly identify featured items. 

Response to OK Cupid girl 

I like that the OK Cupid girl recommends things that seem to be empowering and body positive. I don’t usually take selfies to post to social media, most of them I just send to my friends or fiance on Snapchat. I feel like I never take one good enough for Facebook but maybe I will get some better ones with these tips. The above picture is a druken selfie I took at a friend’s Halloween party. I like this selfie because it demonstrates my excitement but I am cleary drunk so I dont think it was appropriate for Facebook. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmRih_VtVAs

One of the multimodal texts I collected was the recently released trailer for Suicide Squad. The trailer uses visual communication in its settings and character design, linguistic communication in the individual quotes and writing for the credits/title, aural communication in the music and sound effect choices, spatial in the set design and posistioning of the main characters in realtion to supporting cast, and gestural communication to signal character development throughout the trailer, and potentially, the movie. 

Another of the multimodal texts I collected is the confused man meme. This meme uses visual communication through the picture, gestural communication with the man’s confused face, linguistic through the use of question marks, and spatial through the posistioning of the question marks. 

photo credit: @holasean

COUP

Overview: Coup is a bluffing game in which the player chooses two character cards at random and uses them to earn coins and kill off other players’ “influences”. 

Objects: Includes fifteen “influences” or character cards, coins to use for actions against other players, and cards for each player listing the actions of each influence. When you collect 10+ coins you must perform a coup and remove another player’s influence.