Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

Explains the multimodal connections of text, image, space, body, sound and speech, in both old and new computer-mediated communication systems.

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Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant cl