Sign-language media
Sign-language media are media based on a media system for sign languages. Interfaces in sign-language media are built on the complex grammar structure of sign languages. Generally media are built for or written languages, and are often not compatible with sign languages.
Sign-language media have specific characteristics:
- Sound is absent, or on very low frequencies (bass).
- No, or very little, text is used.
- A specific camera frame for close-ups.
Milestones[]
- Analog era:
- Film - Sign-language media is born. The first sign-language film is created in 1902.[1]
- Video - Sign-language magazines on video are distributed.
- Digital era:
- Digital video and software - Sign-language interfaces are created to browse content.
- World wide web - Information in sign language becomes available for everyone.
- The videophone and webcam - Sign-language telecommunication becomes possible.
- Mobile videotelephony - UMTS provides support for sign-language telecommunications.
- Vlogs - Sign-language newssites start booming with the protest against Jane Fernandes.
- Production of sign-language videos using computer-generated avatars instead of images of a real person.[2][3][4]
- Sign-language videos[5] in various form of signs are being produced using a real
External links[]
- Reflecting on Sign Language Media
- Signfuse Sign Language Media
- Joey Baer's ASL Vlog
- Sign Language Film list
- Sign Language Media in Film/TV
- Média'pi! : press media
References[]
- ^ http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=120564&sid=1037883
- ^ Michael Kipp, Alexis Heloir, Quan Nguyen. Sign language avatars: Animation and comprehensibility. Volume 6895 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 113-126. Link to article by Kipp, Heloir, and Nguyen.
- ^ Sarah Ebling. 2013. Evaluating a Swiss German Sign Language Avatar among the Deaf Community. Link to access
- ^ Link to Spanish Sign Language videos done by software
- ^ https://www.jw.org/ase/library/videos/#ase/categories/VODStudio
Categories:
- Sign language
- Deafness
- Deaf culture
- Mass media by language
- Disability mass media
- Sign language stubs