One form of text I have come across daily and most students do too are flyers. Flyers litter the walls of the school and it seems virtually impossible to escape them.
Our group was assigned gestural mode. And a gestural mode refers to the way movement, such as body language, can make meaning. My group's example was during a fire alarm in the dorms, the RA's posture and stance relays the information of "no one goes back in until we say it's safe."
Where gestural mode falls short is not during face to face interactions, but when it is over the phone or someone cannot see you , one cannot properly communicate with gestures. Gestural mode can also be somewhat vague as to what the doer is trying to communicate. An example would be people of different cultural backgrounds, the thumbs up in Europe and America mean things are going well, meanwhile in Islamic and Asian countries it is considered an insult.
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