A sample sign language interface

Sign language media are media based on a media system for sign languages. "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" A sign language (also signed language) is a Language which instead of acoustically conveyed Sound patterns uses visually transmitted sign patterns Interfaces in sign language media are built on the complex grammar structure of sign languages. Generally media are built for spoken languages or written languages. A spoken language is a human Natural language in which the Words are uttered through the Mouth. A written language is the representation of a Language by means of a Writing system. Unfortunately those media are 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. In Film, Television, and Still photography a close-up tightly frames a person or an object

Milestones

• Analog era:
  • Film - Sign language media is born. The first sign language film is created in 1907.
  • Video - Sign language magazines on video are distributed. Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images

• Digital era:
  • Digital video and software - Sign language interfaces are created to browse content. Digital video is a type of Video recording system that works by using a Digital rather than an analog video signal
  • World wide web - Information in sign language becomes available for everyone. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
  • The videophone and webcam - Sign language telecommunication becomes possible. A videophone, also known by the trademarked name Picturephone, is a Telephone which is capable of both audio and Video Duplex transmission Webcams ( web cameras) are small cameras (usually though not always Video cameras, whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant
  • Mobile videotelephony - UMTS provides support for sign language telecommunications.
  • Vlogs - Sign language newssites start booming with the protest against Jane Fernandes. This page is about the visual medium for the Thai film see Video Clip (2007 film. Jane Kelleher Fernandes (b August 21 1956 in Worcester Massachusetts) is a deaf educator and is the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the

External links

• Reflecting on Sign Language Media
• Signfuse Sign Language Media
• Joey Baer's ASL Vlog
• Sign Language Film list