IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Computer Mediated Learning: Applying Burke's Pentad

Computer Mediated Learning: Applying Burke's Pentad
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Alison Ruth (Griffith University, Australia)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Sigrid Kelsey (Louisiana State University, USA)and Kirk St.Amant (East Carolina University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch007

Purchase

View Computer Mediated Learning: Applying Burke's Pentad on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

This chapter proposes that Burke’s (1969) dramatistic analysis using the Pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, purpose) is a valuable methodological tool for investigating how learning theory offers a better understanding of mediated learning environments. It is argued that this framework provides a coherent and comprehensive consideration of learning and communication mediated by electronic means. Research into computer mediated communication needs to acknowledge the intertwining notion of the agents, acts and agency (mediation) within a specific scene, particularly in an online learning environment. Burke’s (1969) work provides a useful framework for discussing and describing a mediated environment and appears to be a valid framework within which to analyze different learning and communicative environments.

Related Content

Sandeep Gupta, Ruchi Varshney, Devendra Kumar Tiwari, Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi, Tarun Varshney, Pavan Kumar Shukla. © 2026. 32 pages.
Ezgi Güney. © 2026. 30 pages.
Pradeep Kumar Tiwari, Santosh Dubey, Ravi Srivastava, Satya Prakash Singh, Sandeep Kanaujia, Shadab Hussain. © 2026. 30 pages.
Sandeep Gupta, Parvesh Saini, Nitin Sundriyal, Juan M. Ramirez, Shweta Goyal. © 2026. 28 pages.
Neeraj Kumar Srivastava, Anjaneya Awasthi, Neha Pandey, Susmith Rajendra Barigidad. © 2026. 32 pages.
Kiran Kumari, Prateek Nigam. © 2026. 24 pages.
Madgula Satyanrayana, Venkataramana Veeramsetty, Durgam Rajababu. © 2026. 36 pages.
Body Bottom