March 16, 2011
Captioned irony: How captions manipulate narrative time and viewers’ knowledge
Inspired by the notion of dramatic irony, I offer a definition of “captioned irony.”
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).