Chirp! Captioning BB-8 in The Force Awakens
How do the closed captions convey the changing meanings and emotions of the BB-8 droid’s electronic beeping sounds?
Access, sound, captioning, film/media. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. His book, Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture, won the 2017 award for best book in technical or scientific communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).