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). He teaches technical writing, web accessibility, disability studies, sound studies, and AI literacy.