Multimodal Texts
and Dystopian Worlds
For example, we can simply show with PRINT that a Dystopian world is typically a futuristic, imagined wporld in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian CONTROL.
Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system.
Or...
... we can use a multimodal approach to show our readers our imagined world.
For instance, how do we show that our world is controlled by technology, ruled by propaganda and the population is perhaps under constant surveillance? All must conform and individuality is treated as suspicious in a world where all nature is banished
On the surface our worLds may appear
Utopian.
However. we find that these worlds are controlled by....