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Cripping closed captioning: Experiments with type, icons, and dynamic effects

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A frame from Blade Runner (1982) featuring a custom cross walk icon as an experiment caption.

Can we open closed captioning up to greater experimentation through the use of color, icons, typography, and basic animations to convey meaning?

Read the full article at DigitalRhetoricCollaborative.org.

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S. Zdenek

Dr. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

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