January 11, 2010
Captioning the backchannel: How captions clarify and equalize sounds
When sounds in the background are captioned, they come forward. All sounds become equally “loud” on the caption track.
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).