September 16, 2011
Busy signal or engaged tone? Captions, language variety, and localized accessibility
On the need to consider differences among varieties of English when captioning non-speech 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).