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Media, on the other hand, are the tools and material resources used to produce and disseminate texts. Media are technologies, channels, practices and platforms which we use to disseminate share, obtain, store, organize and create information about the world around us through communication and interaction. Examples of media, both broad and narrow casting, include books, radio, television, computers, smartphones, paint brush and canvas, and the body. The internet and digital tools are usually referred as digital media. 1 Hence, although media and modes are different and independent of each other, the media used affects the ways in which meaning can be realized through modes-or each media affords certain possibilities for communication or action. Accordingly, these concepts are independent and interdependent from each other at the same time. A multimodal text is characterized by the use of several different modes. 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